Oded Rabinovitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 328133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oded Rabinovitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oded |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabinovitch |
| SIGNATURE | RABINOVITCH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0985-7532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Men of Letters Invented a Scientific Revolution
In contrast to other scientific renaissances, the culture forged in seventeenth-century Europe became an enduring phenomenon rather than dissipating within a few generations. In an effort to understand the persistence of European science, this article uses the case study of France under Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) to argue that men of letters played a crucial role in the legitimation of the nascent scientific movement. These men of letters enjoyed a…
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France
Historians have long debated the origins of modern science in early modern Europe. Recently, however, scholars pointed to our need to understand how the ‘new philosophy’ became a sustained movement, which did not dissipate over the course of a few generations, as had previous scientific renaissances in other civilizations. This article suggests that the mediations of the printed book allowed a broader public to engage with the astronomical ideas …
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc
Sébastien Le Clerc was born into a family of goldsmiths in Lorraine, and received classical artisanal training. Yet over the course of a highly successful career as an engraver, he also became a widely published scientific author. This paper argues that geometrical skills played a key role in the dual development of Le Clerc’s career, and in his striving for recognition as a man of letters, as well as an engraver. By a detailed study of the geome…
Hommes de lettres et révolution scientifique
Au contraire d'autres mouvements équivalents, lemouvement scientifique né dans l'Europe du xviie siècle s'inscrivit dans la durée au lieu de s'essouffler au bout de quelques générations. Afin de comprendre cette persistance, cet article s'appuie sur le cas de la France au temps de Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Il soutient que les hommes de lettres ont joué un rôle crucial dans la légitimation du mouvement scientifique naissant. Ces hommes de lettres,…
A learned artisan debates the system of the world
Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714) was the most renowned engraver of Louis XIV's France. For the history of scientific publishing, however, Le Clerc represents a telling paradox. Even though he followed a traditional route based on classic artisanal training, he also published extensively on scientific topics such as cosmology and mathematics. While contemporary scholarship usually stresses the importance of artisanal writing as a direct expression o…
Captives and corsairs
Historians of early modern France have not devoted much attention to the Mediterranean and especially to the relations between the French monarchy and the four North African polities that dominated
Versailles as a Family Enterprise
Historians usually treat Versailles as a site of courtly interaction, or as a source for courtly “taste.” This article, however, examines processes that connected Versailles to the wider world, arguing for a model of Versailles’s role in the cultural politics of the monarchy, which stresses appropriations by men of letters and supplants “top-down” models of cultural absolutism. It explores the symbolic and material uses of Versailles in the socia…
Chameleons between Science and Literature
INTRODUCTIONThe foundation of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1666 is often seen as one of the landmarks of the so-called Scientific Revolution. The Academy, together with the Royal Society of London, gave the 'new philosophy' of the seventeenth century a state-sponsored framework, providing experimental philosophy with a stable setting and with the prestige stemming from royal patronage. This move supplanted the previous less-than-formal…
Chameleons between Science and Literature
INTRODUCTIONThe foundation of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1666 is often seen as one of the landmarks of the so-called Scientific Revolution. The Academy, together with the Royal Society of London, gave the 'new philosophy' of the seventeenth century a state-sponsored framework, providing experimental philosophy with a stable setting and with the prestige stemming from royal patronage. This move supplanted the previous less-than-formal…
A learned artisan debates the system of the world
Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714) was the most renowned engraver of Louis XIV's France. For the history of scientific publishing, however, Le Clerc represents a telling paradox. Even though he followed a traditional route based on classic artisanal training, he also published extensively on scientific topics such as cosmology and mathematics. While contemporary scholarship usually stresses the importance of artisanal writing as a direct expression o…
Captives and corsairs
Historians of early modern France have not devoted much attention to the Mediterranean and especially to the relations between the French monarchy and the four North African polities that dominated
Versailles as a Family Enterprise
Historians usually treat Versailles as a site of courtly interaction, or as a source for courtly “taste.” This article, however, examines processes that connected Versailles to the wider world, arguing for a model of Versailles’s role in the cultural politics of the monarchy, which stresses appropriations by men of letters and supplants “top-down” models of cultural absolutism. It explores the symbolic and material uses of Versailles in the socia…
Chameleons between Science and Literature
INTRODUCTIONThe foundation of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1666 is often seen as one of the landmarks of the so-called Scientific Revolution. The Academy, together with the Royal Society of London, gave the 'new philosophy' of the seventeenth century a state-sponsored framework, providing experimental philosophy with a stable setting and with the prestige stemming from royal patronage. This move supplanted the previous less-than-formal…
A learned artisan debates the system of the world
Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714) was the most renowned engraver of Louis XIV's France. For the history of scientific publishing, however, Le Clerc represents a telling paradox. Even though he followed a traditional route based on classic artisanal training, he also published extensively on scientific topics such as cosmology and mathematics. While contemporary scholarship usually stresses the importance of artisanal writing as a direct expression o…
Hommes de lettres et révolution scientifique
Au contraire d'autres mouvements équivalents, lemouvement scientifique né dans l'Europe du xviie siècle s'inscrivit dans la durée au lieu de s'essouffler au bout de quelques générations. Afin de comprendre cette persistance, cet article s'appuie sur le cas de la France au temps de Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Il soutient que les hommes de lettres ont joué un rôle crucial dans la légitimation du mouvement scientifique naissant. Ces hommes de lettres,…
How Men of Letters Invented a Scientific Revolution
In contrast to other scientific renaissances, the culture forged in seventeenth-century Europe became an enduring phenomenon rather than dissipating within a few generations. In an effort to understand the persistence of European science, this article uses the case study of France under Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) to argue that men of letters played a crucial role in the legitimation of the nascent scientific movement. These men of letters enjoyed a…
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France
Historians have long debated the origins of modern science in early modern Europe. Recently, however, scholars pointed to our need to understand how the ‘new philosophy’ became a sustained movement, which did not dissipate over the course of a few generations, as had previous scientific renaissances in other civilizations. This article suggests that the mediations of the printed book allowed a broader public to engage with the astronomical ideas …
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc
Sébastien Le Clerc was born into a family of goldsmiths in Lorraine, and received classical artisanal training. Yet over the course of a highly successful career as an engraver, he also became a widely published scientific author. This paper argues that geometrical skills played a key role in the dual development of Le Clerc’s career, and in his striving for recognition as a man of letters, as well as an engraver. By a detailed study of the geome…
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