Florin‐stefan Morar

Biographic Data

ID4877109
NAMEFlorin‐stefan Morar
GIVEN NAMESFlorin‐stefan
FAMILY NAMEMorar
SIGNATUREMORAR F S
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
ORCID0000-0003-3415-2638
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Unintended experiment

    Open AccessFlorin‐stefan MorarARTICLEInternational Politics2024References: 8

  • The Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, written by Dominic Sachsenmeier

    Open AccessFlorin-Stefan Morar, Florin‐stefan MorarARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2019

    support a distinct British corporate sociology and governance?" (284).

  • The Westerner

    Open AccessFlorin-Stefan Morar, Florin‐stefan MorarARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2019

    Beginning with the late Ming dynasty, Europeans in China assumed the name of “people from the Great Western Ocean” ( Daxiyang ren 大西洋人), often shortened to “Ocean people” ( yang ren 洋人) or “Western people” ( xi ren 西人). What is the origin of this name? This paper seeks to answer this question by suggesting a new interpretation of the cartography of Matteo Ricci. Much of the scholarly debate about the Ricci world map revolves around the notion tha…

  • Relocating the Qing in the Global History of Science

    Florin-Stefan Morar, Florin‐stefan MorarARTICLEIsis2018Cited by: 1References: 8

    The Map of Observing the Mysteries of the Heaven and Earth is a world map in eight panels created in 1603 by the Ming dynasty military official Li Yingshi 李應試. The map is a variant of the known work by the Italian Jesuit savant Matteo Ricci and the scholar Li Zhizao 李之藻. This essay focuses on one copy of this 1603 world map, which was in the possession of the Manchus of the Later Jin state, the precursor of the Qing. This essay argues that the ma…

  • Historicism

    Open AccessFlorin‐stefan MorarCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Historicism refers to theories of history and historical interpretation. The usage of the term in English is confusing as it covers fundamentally different approaches. Karl Popper gave a first important sense of historicism in his critique of the theories of history of Plato, Marx, and Hegel, which sees developments in society as being determined by laws similar to the laws of nature. Historicism in English obscures the difference of this approac…

  • Doctoral Thesis in Progress

    Florin-Stefan Morar, Florin‐stefan MorarARTICLEImago Mundi2017

    Advanced doctoral students whose dissertations are substantially concerned with the history of cartography are invited to contact the editor of this section (Dr Elizabeth Baigent, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford OX2 6PW, UK; [email protected]) to discuss the submission of a short article. For a list of doctoral theses in progress see http://www.maphistory.info/futurephd.html

  • Reinventing machines

    Open AccessFlorin-Stefan Morar, Florin‐stefan MorarARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2015Cited by: 1References: 9

    This paper argues that we should take into account the process of historical transmission to enrich our understanding of material culture. More specifically, I want to show how the rewriting of history and the invention of tradition impact material objects and our beliefs about them. I focus here on the transmission history of the mechanical calculator invented by the German savant Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz repeatedly described his machi…