Raz Chen‐Morris

Biographic Data

ID5650030
NAMERaz Chen‐Morris
GIVEN NAMESRaz
FAMILY NAMEChen‐Morris
SIGNATUREMORRIS R C
AFFILIATIONSBar-Ilan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Instruments of Knowledge

    Open AccessRaz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2025

  • Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus

    Raz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2017

  • Modes of writing and early modern modes of scientific observation

    Open AccessRaz Chen‐MorrisARTICLERenaissance Studies2017References: 2

    The emergence of new scientific styles of thought and practices during the seventeenth century was intricately tied to the development of new cultural sensitivities and challenging experimentation with modes of expression in music, literature and the visual arts, generally known as the Baroque. The question of how to relate the pretences of natural philosophers and mathematicians of the period to present coherent systems of the world with the anx…

  • The contested domain of seventeenth-century natural knowledge

    Open AccessRaz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLEMetascience2016

  • Renaissance Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity

    Raz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐Morris et al.ARTICLEThe European Legacy2015

    Over the course of the twentieth century, the search for the origins of modernity shifted from the presumption of progress and emancipation to a more nuanced notion of modernity’s tensions and ambi

  • The Copernican Question

    Raz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLEThe European Legacy2014

  • Science in the Age of Baroque

    Open AccessRaz Chen‐Morris, Ofer Gal et al.BOOKScience in the Age of Baroque2012Cited by: 1References: 27

  • Nature’s drawing

    Open AccessOfer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris et al.ARTICLESynthese2011Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer

    Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2010Cited by: 4References: 5

    Seventeenth-century optics naturalizes the eye while estranging the mind from objects. A mere screen, on which rests a blurry array of light stains, the eye no longer furnishes the observer with genuine re-presentations of visible objects. The intellect is thus compelled to decipher flat images of no inherent epistemic value, accidental effects of a purely causal process, as vague, reversed reflections of wholly independent objects. Reflecting on…

  • From Emblems to Diagrams

    Open AccessRaz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2009Cited by: 1References: 11

    Kepler's treatise on optics of 1604 furnished, along with technical solutions to problems in medieval perspective, a mathematically-based visual language for the observation of nature. This language, based on Kepler's theory of retinal pictures, ascribed a new role to geometrical diagrams. This paper examines Kepler's pictorial language against the backdrop of alchemical emblems that flourished in and around the court of Rudolf II in Prague. It h…

  • The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law

    Open AccessOfer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris et al.ARTICLEHistory of Science2006References: 3

  • Shadows of Instruction

    Raz Chen-Morris, Raz Chen‐MorrisARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2005Cited by: 2

    Kepler's Somnium is a fantastical story about the world on the moon. It presents a heliocentric world-picture established through a total conversion of the meaning and place of observation in the hierarchy of knowledge. This epistemological program is construed through a critical adaptation of Lucian's "True Story," and Plutarch's "The Face on the Moon." Utilizing his new optics, embodied in the Camera obscura, Kepler inverts the meaning of these…

  • The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law

    Open AccessOfer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris et al.ARTICLEHistory of Science2005References: 5

  • Painting the Heavens

    Raz Chen‐Morris, Raz D Chen-MorrisARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000