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#### Thèmes de recherche - La Chine, 221 AEC-907 EC, surtout la période de désunion, 220-618 EC - Histoire, historiographie et sociologie des sciences exactes - Polymathie et l’intrication entre sciences, études classiques, politique, religions, sport et éthique - Graphologie et études manuscrites #### Parcours - **Chargé de recherche**, [CRCAO](http://www.crcao.fr/) (UMR 8155), Collège de France, EPHE, CNRS, PSL Research University, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité (2019-présent) ; [Laboratoire SPHERE](http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/) (UMR 7219), CNRS, Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (2015-2019). - Chercheur postdoctoral, [projet européen SAW](http://sawerc.hypotheses.org/), Laboratoire SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot (2013-2015) - PhD, 2013, University of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations. - BA, 2003, University of Washington, Department of Asian Languages & Literature #### Projets - Chef de sous-projet, projet NSSFC [*Zhongguo lifa tongshi yanjiu* 中國曆法通史研究](http://www.npopss-cn.gov.cn/n1/2015/1222/c400732-27961907.html), porté par Qu Anjing 曲安京, Northwestern University, Xi'an (2016-2020). - Membre, projet PSL *[Table Analysis Method for the History of the Astral Sciences](http://tamas.hypotheses.org/author/tamas)* (TAMAS), porté par Matthieu Husson, CNRS-SYRTE, (2016-présent). - Membre, projet européen *[Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World](http://sawerc.hypotheses.org/)* (SAW), porté par Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller et Christine Proust, CNRS-SPHERE (2013-2016). #### Activités professionnelles - Membre du comité éditorial de la série *Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter*, Springer. - Éditeur anglophone, *Études chinoises* (2016-présent) #### Popularisation - Membre, Comité scientifique et culturel Cosmovisions, une exposition collaborative sur l'histoire de la cosmologie jusqu'à nos jours organisée par Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie & Palais de le Découverte) et le Museo de las Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (2015–2017).
#### Research interests - China, 221 BCE–907 CE, especially the Period of Disunion, 220–618 CE - History, historiography and sociology of the exact sciences - Polymathy and the entanglement of the sciences, classical studies, politics, religion, sport and ethics - Graphology and manuscript studies #### Positions and degrees - **Researcher (CRCN)**, [CRCAO](http://www.crcao.fr/) (UMR 8155), Collège de France, EPHE, CNRS, PSL Research University, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité (2019–present); [Laboratoire SPHERE](http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/) (UMR 7219), CNRS, Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (2015–2019). - Postdoctoral researcher, [ERC project SAW](http://sawerc.hypotheses.org/), Laboratoire SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot (2013–2015) - PhD, 2013, University of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations. - BA, 2003, University of Washington, Department of Asian Languages & Literature #### Projects - Sub-project leader, NSSFC project [*Zhongguo lifa tongshi yanjiu* 中國曆法通史研究](http://www.npopss-cn.gov.cn/n1/2015/1222/c400732-27961907.html), directed by Qu Anjing 曲安京, Northwestern University, Xi'an (2016–2020). - Member, PSL project *[Table Analysis Method for the History of the Astral Sciences](http://tamas.hypotheses.org/author/tamas)* (TAMAS), directed by Matthieu Husson, CNRS-SYRTE, (2016–). - Member, ERC project *[Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World](http://sawerc.hypotheses.org/)* (SAW), directed by Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, and Christine Proust, CNRS-SPHERE (2013–2016). #### Professional activities - Member of the editorial committee of the series ’Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter’, Springer. - Éditeur anglophone, *Études chinoises* (2016–) #### Popularisation - Member, Comité scientifique et culturel Cosmovisions, a collaborative exhibition on the history of cosmology to our day organised by Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie & Palais de le Découverte) and the Museo de las Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (2015–2017). #### Statement Below you will find an up-to-date list of all publications, papers and other written or visual materials I have ever produced, with links to the appropriate publishers’ websites for paper and PDF copies as well as open access, Creative Commons downloads of pre-prints, post-prints and other author-owned materials. As a public servant, my work from 2013 to present has been graciously paid for in different forms by the French and European taxpayer, and thus I feel it my duty to see that he/she have free, legal, unrestricted, advertisement-free VIP access to what he/she has paid for. If you feel the same, please inquire about self-archiving with your institution or consider supporting services such as [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/) or [Humanities Commons](https://hcommons.org/).

Publications

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Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy

Daniel Patrick Morgan , Howard L. Goodman
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu), 2019
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01423329v1
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Heavenly Patterns

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu), 2019
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01404116v1
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Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China

Daniel Patrick Morgan
John M. Steele. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, Brill, pp.416-450, 2016, 9789004315631. ⟨10.1163/9789004315631_015⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01333536v1

Calling out Zheng Xuan (127–200 CE) at the crossroads of ritual, maths, sport and classical commentary (version 2)

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Commentaries on Mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Aug 2017, Berlin, Germany
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01561354v1

Calling out Zheng Xuan (127–200 CE) at the crossroads of ritual, maths, sport and classical commentary

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Workshop 'Commentaries', Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Aug 2016, Berlin, Germany
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01577827v1

Doors Open and Shut: the Bureaucratic Insulation of the Astral Sciences in Imperial China and the First Waves of Foreign Influence

Daniel Patrick Morgan
7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Society for the History of Sciences and Technology of the Czech Republic, Sep 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01360103v1

Virtue on Trial: Ritual Archery Competitions and Astronomical Testing in Early China

Alan Levinovitz , Daniel Patrick Morgan
Ritual, Mathematics, and the Astral Sciences, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jun 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333703v1

Sur lattes de bambou et planchettes de bois : les premiers calendriers annuels en Chine (IIIe siècle avant notre ère – IIe siècle après notre ère), leurs usages et fonctions

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Atelier Calendriers d’Europe et d’Asie : supports, usages et fonctions, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Oct 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01368860v1

What is Normal and what is Right: Grand Matron Cao and the Women of the Astral Sciences in China, 1st – 4th cent. CE

Daniel Patrick Morgan , Lisa Indraccolo
Séminaire femmes et savoirs : espaces, frontières, marges, EHSS & Centre Alexandre-Koyré, May 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333883v1
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On the potential of corpus-based handwriting analysis: a refined analysis of the Zhangjiashan tomb library

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Scribal Hands and Scribal Practices in Manuscripts from Warring States and Early Imperial China, Universität Heidelberg, Nov 2016, Heidelberg, Germany
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01368873v1

Shu shu 數術: When an actor’s category became an observer’s category, why, and what we can do about it

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Writing histories of ancient mathematics – Reflecting on past practices and opening the future, ERC Project SAW, Oct 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01360195v1

A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmography

Daniel Patrick Morgan
seminar Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jan 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341843v1

First-Millennium Chinese Mathematical Literature as a Case Study in Polysemy and Semantic Drift

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Guest Lectures 2016, Universität Zürich, Mar 2016, Zürich, Switzerland
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341840v1

Remarques sur « la vérification » de « l’étroitesse » : sports de tirs et concours de précision dans l’astronomie mathématique en Chine ancienne

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Assemblé générale, CNRS-SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Feb 2016, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341842v1

A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmography

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Nineteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan, Meiji Gakuin University, Jun 2015, Tokyo, Japan
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333700v1
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What can you do with a Calendar? Extracting Facts, Stories, and Information otherwise pertinent to your own Field from a Table of Dates

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Workshop on Zhangjiashan Tomb 247, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Nov 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333719v1

The Shaming of the Assistant Director: A Debacle in Third-century Chinese Mathematics Reconsidered in the light of Manuscript Culture, Biography, and the Historiography of Science

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Lunch hour lecture, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Feb 2015, New York, United States
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341869v1
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Opening Remarks, Workshop on Zhangjiashan Tomb 247

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Workshop on Zhangjiashan Tomb 247, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Nov 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01388096v1
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A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmography

Daniel Patrick Morgan
First International Workshop on Traditional Sciences in Asia, Kyoto University, Jun 2015, Kyoto, Japan
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333724v1

Reflections upon the Presentation of Parallel Algorithms Across the Astral and Mathematical Sciences in First-Millennium China

Daniel Patrick Morgan
International Conference on History of Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy, 西北大学 Northwestern University; ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Aug 2015, Xi'an, China
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333721v1
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By Process of Elimination: Further Remarks on the Operation chú 除 in Early Imperial Mathematical Astronomy

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Conference Mathematical Practices in relation to the Astral Sciences, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Mar 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333725v1

Spreadsheets and First-millennium Chinese li Procedure Texts

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Analysing and Editing Numerical Tables from Ancient Astral Sciences workshop, Observatoire de Paris, Jun 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333723v1

The production of integers and mathematical operations in writings on astral sciences in ancient China

Karine Chemla , Daniel Patrick Morgan
Three-Month Workshop Mathematical Practices in relation to the Astral Sciences – 2015, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jan 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341845v1

The Early Imperial Astral Sciences as viewed through Actors’ Categories

Daniel Patrick Morgan
14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Jul 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333701v1

Sphere Confusion: The Textual Reconstruction of First-millennium hun Instruments

Daniel Patrick Morgan
seminar Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Feb 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341844v1

That the Sphere may Triumph: the History and Historiography of Cosmography after the Han

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Séminaire Histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine en Asie orientale, CNRS-EHESS, Jan 2015, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341846v1

The Luminous Inception system (Jingchu li 景初曆) of AD 237 (part 2)

Daniel Patrick Morgan
SAW Text Reading Seminar, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Mar 2014, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01347872v1

Math Lessons: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to an Early Chinese Manuscript Culture

Daniel Patrick Morgan , Karine Chemla
What Can the History of Science Contribute to Manuscript Studies or What Can Manuscript Studies Contribute to the History of Science? Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures; ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), May 2014, Hamburg, Germany
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333739v1

How do you du? Remarks on Chinese Astronomical Coordinates

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Seminar The Shaping of Time and Space, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jan 2014, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341880v1
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也有輪著寫的:張家山漢簡《筭數書》寫手與篇序初探

Daniel Patrick Morgan , Karine Chemla
International Forum for the Study of Chinese Excavated Texts 2014, University of Chicago; Wuhan University, Oct 2014, Chicago, United States
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01333734v1

Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China

Daniel Patrick Morgan
The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, Brown University, Apr 2014, Providence, United States. pp.416-50
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341872v1

The Luminous Inception system (Jingchu li 景初曆) of AD 237 (part 1)

Daniel Patrick Morgan
SAW Text Reading Seminar, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jan 2014, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341877v1

What Good’s a Text? Textuality, Orality, and Mathematical Astronomy in Early Imperial China

Daniel Patrick Morgan
Seminar History of Science, History of Text, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot), Jun 2014, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341847v1

On Conceptual Distinctions within the Early Imperial Astral Sciences

Daniel Patrick Morgan
XX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Jul 2014, Braga, Portugal
Communication dans un congrès hal-01333671v1

Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy

Daniel Patrick Morgan , Howard L. Goodman
Workshop Treatises of the Book of Sui, ERC project SAW (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot); CRCAO – CNRS, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes & Université Paris Diderot, Nov 2013, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01341886v1