Dániel Margócsy

Dániel Margócsy is Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on the relationship between European colonial expansion, the development of modern science, and the long-term history of environmental transformation. He received his PhD from Harvard University, and his BA from University College Utrecht. Margócsy has been a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, and the Herzog August Bibliothek. He is the author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), and, with Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe, The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions (Leiden: Brill, 2018), which won the Neu-Whitrow Prize. His previous work has examined the development of 16th-century flower painting, the shared histories of anthropology and shell collecting, the role of maintenance in transportation technologies, and the colonial origins of 21st-century global projects of datafication.