Harold Marcus
Biographic Data
| ID | 316349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Marcus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcus |
| SIGNATURE | MARCUS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6189-5643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and Collector
Beheading the Hydra: Antonio Castelvetro, The Congregation of the Index, and an Imagined Future for Print Censorship
In 1587, Antonio Castelvetro, a little-known physician from a well-known Modenese family, circulated a manuscript treatise that proposed a radical new vision for a Catholic press and a reformed system of press censorship: The Brief Treatise on the Reform of the Press (Trattato breve sopra la riforma della stampa). Historians have typically treated this text with a combination of amusement and outright ridicule, but this essay explains the ways th…
Knowing Old Age in the Renaissance: Medicine, Poetry, and Spirituality in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Encyclopedia of Old Age
Over more than thirty years the Bolognese botanist, natural historian, and physician Ulisse Aldrovandi compiled his Pandechion epistemonicon-a manuscript encyclopedia composed of pasted note slips drawn from books he was reading. This article examines the 580 slips that comprise Aldrovandi's Pandechion entry on old age. The entry allows us to examine how an early modern physician and his intellectual community approached old age as an epistemolog…
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo's rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor
The terms that Galileo's contemporaries used for lenses ( cristallo/i, lente/i, and vetro/i) have often been treated, and even translated, interchangeably. In this article, we argue that Galileo used references to crystals as lenses to embed epistemological and cosmological arguments in the material object of the telescope. Across Galileo's correspondence and letters, the term crystal had many uses and meanings. As a substance, crystal was a form…
The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe. Giulia Giannini and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 27. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 301 pp. €115. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
In the afterword to this volume, Naama Cohen-Hanegbi describes this book as about “women’s health and women’s roles in healthcare” in the late Middle Ages and early modernity (316). Substantial recent research, including books and articles by editors Ritchey and Strocchia, has enhanced our understanding of both subjects. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how a wide historical gaze and careful contextual analysis of texts and images can bett…
Renaissance Encyclopaedism: Studies in Curiosity and Ambition
Renaissance Encyclopaedism: Studies in Curiosity and Ambition. W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi, eds. Essays and Studies 41. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018. 468 pp. $49.95. - Volume 73 Issue 3
Revisiting the Plague in the Age of Galileo
Previous articleNext article FreeRevisiting the Plague in the Age of GalileoHannah MarcusHannah MarcusHarvard University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn the midst of the epidemic and in flagrant defiance of public health decrees, armed men, women, and children from several rural towns g…
Deciphering Galileo: Communication and Secrecy before and after the Trial
Galileo participated in exchanges of encrypted correspondence at key moments in his life. In 1610–11, following the publication of the “Sidereal Messenger,” ciphers helped Galileo to diplomatically reveal what he was observing through his telescope. After his Inquisition trial of 1633, Galileo and his closest allies relied on a substitution code (gergo) to protect the privacy of his conversations and to facilitate the removal of his library and m…
The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Index
Girolamo Rossi (1539-1607) was a historian, physician, and prolific censor for the Catholic Church. This article examines Rossi’s manuscripts in Ravenna and the Vatican to explore how a physician contributed to the expurgation efforts of the Congregation of the Index in the years following the publication of the Clementine Index (1596). I argue that participating in these censorship efforts trained physicians and other lay experts to read like ce…
The breakdown of Galileo’s Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633
Rome has long been central to the story of Galileo's life and scientific work. Through an analysis of the metadata of Galileo's surviving letters, combined with a close reading of the letters themselves, we discuss how Galileo used correspondence to build a Roman network. Galileo initially assembled this network around the members of the Lincean Academy, a few carefully nurtured relationships with important ecclesiastics, and the expertise of wel…
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883
Contents: Foreword Preface Introduction Text: Book I: Between two Niles Book II: On the Abyssinian frontier Book III: Last journey South Appendices Bibliography Index
Tewodros and His Contemporaries 1855-1868
Ethiopia and Austria: A History of Their Relations
The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935-1941
Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Rapid change both worldwide and in Ethiopia necessitated this revised edition. Contains considerable material on Eritrea as well as Ethiopia
Arms for the Horn: U.S. Security Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia, 1953-1991
Research Aids/Outils de recherches
History of Ethiopian Towns from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1935
Ethiopia, Great Britain and the United States 1941-1974: The Politics of Empire
Revolution and Land Reform in Ethiopia: Peasant Associations, Local Government and Rural Development
England, Europe and the Upper Nile
Deciphering Galileo: Communication and Secrecy before and after the Trial
Galileo participated in exchanges of encrypted correspondence at key moments in his life. In 1610–11, following the publication of the “Sidereal Messenger,” ciphers helped Galileo to diplomatically reveal what he was observing through his telescope. After his Inquisition trial of 1633, Galileo and his closest allies relied on a substitution code (gergo) to protect the privacy of his conversations and to facilitate the removal of his library and m…
The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Index
Girolamo Rossi (1539-1607) was a historian, physician, and prolific censor for the Catholic Church. This article examines Rossi’s manuscripts in Ravenna and the Vatican to explore how a physician contributed to the expurgation efforts of the Congregation of the Index in the years following the publication of the Clementine Index (1596). I argue that participating in these censorship efforts trained physicians and other lay experts to read like ce…
The breakdown of Galileo’s Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633
Rome has long been central to the story of Galileo's life and scientific work. Through an analysis of the metadata of Galileo's surviving letters, combined with a close reading of the letters themselves, we discuss how Galileo used correspondence to build a Roman network. Galileo initially assembled this network around the members of the Lincean Academy, a few carefully nurtured relationships with important ecclesiastics, and the expertise of wel…
England, Europe and the Upper Nile
England, Europe and the Upper Nile
Revolution and Land Reform in Ethiopia: Peasant Associations, Local Government and Rural Development
Ethiopia, Great Britain and the United States 1941-1974: The Politics of Empire
History of Ethiopian Towns from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1935
Arms for the Horn: U.S. Security Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia, 1953-1991
Research Aids/Outils de recherches
The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935-1941
Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Rapid change both worldwide and in Ethiopia necessitated this revised edition. Contains considerable material on Eritrea as well as Ethiopia
Tewodros and His Contemporaries 1855-1868
Ethiopia and Austria: A History of Their Relations
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883
Contents: Foreword Preface Introduction Text: Book I: Between two Niles Book II: On the Abyssinian frontier Book III: Last journey South Appendices Bibliography Index
The breakdown of Galileo’s Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633
Rome has long been central to the story of Galileo's life and scientific work. Through an analysis of the metadata of Galileo's surviving letters, combined with a close reading of the letters themselves, we discuss how Galileo used correspondence to build a Roman network. Galileo initially assembled this network around the members of the Lincean Academy, a few carefully nurtured relationships with important ecclesiastics, and the expertise of wel…
The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Index
Girolamo Rossi (1539-1607) was a historian, physician, and prolific censor for the Catholic Church. This article examines Rossi’s manuscripts in Ravenna and the Vatican to explore how a physician contributed to the expurgation efforts of the Congregation of the Index in the years following the publication of the Clementine Index (1596). I argue that participating in these censorship efforts trained physicians and other lay experts to read like ce…
Deciphering Galileo: Communication and Secrecy before and after the Trial
Galileo participated in exchanges of encrypted correspondence at key moments in his life. In 1610–11, following the publication of the “Sidereal Messenger,” ciphers helped Galileo to diplomatically reveal what he was observing through his telescope. After his Inquisition trial of 1633, Galileo and his closest allies relied on a substitution code (gergo) to protect the privacy of his conversations and to facilitate the removal of his library and m…
Renaissance Encyclopaedism: Studies in Curiosity and Ambition
Renaissance Encyclopaedism: Studies in Curiosity and Ambition. W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi, eds. Essays and Studies 41. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018. 468 pp. $49.95. - Volume 73 Issue 3
Revisiting the Plague in the Age of Galileo
Previous articleNext article FreeRevisiting the Plague in the Age of GalileoHannah MarcusHannah MarcusHarvard University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn the midst of the epidemic and in flagrant defiance of public health decrees, armed men, women, and children from several rural towns g…
The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe. Giulia Giannini and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 27. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 301 pp. €115. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
In the afterword to this volume, Naama Cohen-Hanegbi describes this book as about “women’s health and women’s roles in healthcare” in the late Middle Ages and early modernity (316). Substantial recent research, including books and articles by editors Ritchey and Strocchia, has enhanced our understanding of both subjects. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how a wide historical gaze and careful contextual analysis of texts and images can bett…
Beheading the Hydra: Antonio Castelvetro, The Congregation of the Index, and an Imagined Future for Print Censorship
In 1587, Antonio Castelvetro, a little-known physician from a well-known Modenese family, circulated a manuscript treatise that proposed a radical new vision for a Catholic press and a reformed system of press censorship: The Brief Treatise on the Reform of the Press (Trattato breve sopra la riforma della stampa). Historians have typically treated this text with a combination of amusement and outright ridicule, but this essay explains the ways th…
Knowing Old Age in the Renaissance: Medicine, Poetry, and Spirituality in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Encyclopedia of Old Age
Over more than thirty years the Bolognese botanist, natural historian, and physician Ulisse Aldrovandi compiled his Pandechion epistemonicon-a manuscript encyclopedia composed of pasted note slips drawn from books he was reading. This article examines the 580 slips that comprise Aldrovandi's Pandechion entry on old age. The entry allows us to examine how an early modern physician and his intellectual community approached old age as an epistemolog…
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo's rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor
The terms that Galileo's contemporaries used for lenses ( cristallo/i, lente/i, and vetro/i) have often been treated, and even translated, interchangeably. In this article, we argue that Galileo used references to crystals as lenses to embed epistemological and cosmological arguments in the material object of the telescope. Across Galileo's correspondence and letters, the term crystal had many uses and meanings. As a substance, crystal was a form…
Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and Collector
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