Rivka Feldhay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rivka Feldhay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rivka |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldhay |
| SIGNATURE | FELDHAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science
The paper presents some reflections concerned with Archimedes’ legacy for the development of physico-mathematics in early modernity. First, I introduce Netz’s main themes concerned with the achievements of two generations of Greek mathematicians in their context, including some comparisons with contemporary non-Greek mathematical cultures. My paper, then, points out the necessary conditions for the historical transmission of Archimedes’ legacy on…
Catholic Europe and Sixteenth-Century Science
Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
Before Copernicus
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we un…
The Fragile Boundary between the Political and the Academic
The Council for Higher Education (CHE) Law passed in Israel in 1958. Its aim was to mediate between the state and the institutions for higher education, and to anchor these relations in legislation. The law stipulates that “a recognized institution is free to manage its own academic and administrative affairs as it sees fit, within the framework of its budget” (CHE Law 1958: 15)
Thomist Epistemology of Faith
Argument The paper offers a reading of Aquinas' treatise On Faith as a source of inspiration for later developments in the Catholic world of learning. My main argument is that Aquinas' attempt to interpolate his discourse on faith into a clear epistemological context had long-term intellectual and institutional implications. On the intellectual level Aquinas' discourse had the effect of blurring the ancient dichotomy between episteme /knowledge-s…
Authority, Political Theology, and the Politics of Knowledge in the Transition from Medieval to Early Modern Catholicism
Rivka Feldhay Authority, Political Theology, and the Politics of Knowledge in the Transition from Medieval to Early Modern Catholicism INTRODUCTION ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH AND LAST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT in 1563, the council ordered discussion of the reform of the Catholic prayer book, the Breviary and Missal. The discussion naturally drew attention to the sour problem of the calendar th at had led, in the afterm ath of Trent to the printing…
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters
Mordechai Feingold, ed. Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003. xii + 484 pp. index. illus. $50. ISBN: 0-262-06234-8. - Volume 57 Issue 1
Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church
this article confronts an old-new orientation in the historiographical literature on the “galileo affair.” it argues that a varied group of historians moved by different cultural forces in the last decade of the twentieth century tends to crystallize a consensus about the inevitability of the conflict between galileo and the church and its outcome in the trial of 1633. the “neo-conflictualists” — as i call them — have built their case by adhering…
Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church
The Argument This article confronts an old-new orientation in the historiographical literature on the “Galileo affair.” It argues that a varied group of historians moved by different cultural forces in the last decade of the twentieth century tends to crystallize a consensus about the inevitability of the conflict between Galileo and the Church and its outcome in the trial of 1633. The “neo-conflictualists” — as I call them — have built their cas…
The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
Copernico, Galilei e la Chiesa
Narrative Constraints on Historical Writing
The Argument In this paper three canonical studies of the scientific revolution are subjected to narratological analysis. Underlying this analysis is the assumption that in any single product of historical writing it is possible to distinguish, for analytical purposes, between three levels of reference: the object of the text — the events; the representation of the events — the narrative; and the text in which a story is represented by means of n…
Science, Religion, and Boundary Maintenance
Merton and Methodology
An Olio on Merton
A View From the Amalfi Coast
Merton's Sociology of Science
published
Evaluating the Standard
What Middle-Range Theories Are
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
Knowledge and Salvation in Jesuit Culture
The ArgumentIn this paper, I argue that the most significant contribution of the Jesuits to early modern science (via Galileo) consists in the introduction of a new "image of knowledge."In contradistinction to traditional Scholasticism, this image of knowledge allows for the possibility of a science (i. e. certain knowledge) of hypothetical entities.This problem became crucial in two specific areas. In astronomy, knowledge of mathematical entitie…
What Middle-Range Theories Are
Knowledge and Salvation in Jesuit Culture
The ArgumentIn this paper, I argue that the most significant contribution of the Jesuits to early modern science (via Galileo) consists in the introduction of a new "image of knowledge."In contradistinction to traditional Scholasticism, this image of knowledge allows for the possibility of a science (i. e. certain knowledge) of hypothetical entities.This problem became crucial in two specific areas. In astronomy, knowledge of mathematical entitie…
Merton's Sociology of Science
published
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
Copernico, Galilei e la Chiesa
Merton and Methodology
Evaluating the Standard
Knowledge and Salvation in Jesuit Culture
The ArgumentIn this paper, I argue that the most significant contribution of the Jesuits to early modern science (via Galileo) consists in the introduction of a new "image of knowledge."In contradistinction to traditional Scholasticism, this image of knowledge allows for the possibility of a science (i. e. certain knowledge) of hypothetical entities.This problem became crucial in two specific areas. In astronomy, knowledge of mathematical entitie…
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
Science, Religion, and Boundary Maintenance
Merton and Methodology
An Olio on Merton
A View From the Amalfi Coast
Merton's Sociology of Science
published
Evaluating the Standard
What Middle-Range Theories Are
Narrative Constraints on Historical Writing
The Argument In this paper three canonical studies of the scientific revolution are subjected to narratological analysis. Underlying this analysis is the assumption that in any single product of historical writing it is possible to distinguish, for analytical purposes, between three levels of reference: the object of the text — the events; the representation of the events — the narrative; and the text in which a story is represented by means of n…
Copernico, Galilei e la Chiesa
The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church
The Argument This article confronts an old-new orientation in the historiographical literature on the “Galileo affair.” It argues that a varied group of historians moved by different cultural forces in the last decade of the twentieth century tends to crystallize a consensus about the inevitability of the conflict between Galileo and the Church and its outcome in the trial of 1633. The “neo-conflictualists” — as I call them — have built their cas…
Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church
this article confronts an old-new orientation in the historiographical literature on the “galileo affair.” it argues that a varied group of historians moved by different cultural forces in the last decade of the twentieth century tends to crystallize a consensus about the inevitability of the conflict between galileo and the church and its outcome in the trial of 1633. the “neo-conflictualists” — as i call them — have built their case by adhering…
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters
Mordechai Feingold, ed. Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003. xii + 484 pp. index. illus. $50. ISBN: 0-262-06234-8. - Volume 57 Issue 1
Authority, Political Theology, and the Politics of Knowledge in the Transition from Medieval to Early Modern Catholicism
Rivka Feldhay Authority, Political Theology, and the Politics of Knowledge in the Transition from Medieval to Early Modern Catholicism INTRODUCTION ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH AND LAST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT in 1563, the council ordered discussion of the reform of the Catholic prayer book, the Breviary and Missal. The discussion naturally drew attention to the sour problem of the calendar th at had led, in the afterm ath of Trent to the printing…
Thomist Epistemology of Faith
Argument The paper offers a reading of Aquinas' treatise On Faith as a source of inspiration for later developments in the Catholic world of learning. My main argument is that Aquinas' attempt to interpolate his discourse on faith into a clear epistemological context had long-term intellectual and institutional implications. On the intellectual level Aquinas' discourse had the effect of blurring the ancient dichotomy between episteme /knowledge-s…
The Fragile Boundary between the Political and the Academic
The Council for Higher Education (CHE) Law passed in Israel in 1958. Its aim was to mediate between the state and the institutions for higher education, and to anchor these relations in legislation. The law stipulates that “a recognized institution is free to manage its own academic and administrative affairs as it sees fit, within the framework of its budget” (CHE Law 1958: 15)
Before Copernicus
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we un…
Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
Catholic Europe and Sixteenth-Century Science
Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science
The paper presents some reflections concerned with Archimedes’ legacy for the development of physico-mathematics in early modernity. First, I introduce Netz’s main themes concerned with the achievements of two generations of Greek mathematicians in their context, including some comparisons with contemporary non-Greek mathematical cultures. My paper, then, points out the necessary conditions for the historical transmission of Archimedes’ legacy on…
Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works)