Mordechai Feingold
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1013520 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mordechai Feingold |
| PRENOMES | Mordechai |
| SOBRENOME | Feingold |
| ASSINATURA | FEINGOLD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 14 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Traces on a Rhodian Shore. The Humanist Origins of a Scientific Metaphor
The present article explores the productive afterlife of the Vitruvian anecdote concerning Aristippus’s shipwreck on the shore of Rhodes. Known to several medieval scholars, the anecdote came into vogue during the Renaissance, when it was transformed into a potent metaphor mobilised by moralists, educators and religious authors. Not until the sixteenth century, however, did mathematicians come to recognise the value in appropriating the metaphor …
Early Modern Universities
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies
The three books discussed in this symposium, Scott Mandelbrote writes, “rest heavily” on the representation of Newton’s manuscripts “through the medium of the international digital Newton Project.” While sharing Mandelbrote’s high regard for the Project – of which I’m proud to have been, together with Harvey Shoolman, a founding father – the research that led to Newton and the Origin of Civilization relied primarily on the manuscripts themselves,…
History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2
This book on the history of universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philosophy. The chapters included in this volume aim to pursue two main axes of research: the reconstruction and exploration of the dialectics between tradition and innovation in the reshaping of natural philosophy; the attempt to constitute and consolidate ne…
The One Excluded
Perhaps nothing better exemplifies the scholarly character of the King James Version of the Bible than the decision to exclude Hugh Broughton from among its rank of translators. Scholars have generally accounted for this omission by pointing out Broughton’s volatile personality, with some claiming that the integrity of the translation enterprise suffered owing to the exclusion of the eminent Hebraist. This essay offers a more nuanced evaluation o…
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility…
The Reluctant Martyr
In chronicles of early Catholic missions to England, John Hart (d.1586) comes across as something of an embarrassment. Slated to be executed alongside Edmund Campion on December 1, 1581, at the last moment Hart chose life over martyrdom. In exchange for his freedom he volunteered to spy on William Allen, president of the English College in Rheims. Equally embarrassing, in the context of the charged religious and political atmosphere of the early …
Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship
Long ago, George Sarton set down criteria for reviewers. In addition to insisting on the need to compose 'faithful' reviews, he cautioned against four types of unfit reviewers: the 'egoist', the 'obscure' reviewer, the one who is noncommittal, and the pedantic critic. Unfortunately, Cohen's review comes short on several counts. Cohen writes that he intends to examine what is 'new' in the three books he reviews, and whether the results therein con…
History of Universities
This text contains a mix of learned articles and book reviews. The text contains a combination of original research and invaluable reference material. Topics covered include: democratic representation and fifteenth-century crisis at the University of Paris, the iconography found in universities in the Holy Roman Empire, and university reform in Victorian Britain.
Studies on the Iconography of Universities in the Holy Roman Empire
This chapter provides an iconographic overview on how the universities of the Holy Roman Empire displayed their authority. It will focus on two aspects. The first is the development of iconographic formulae that can convey the constitution and activity of a university or one of its faculties; and the second is the role of coats of arms or other political signs that indicate the relation between the university and the rulers of the territory in wh…
History of Universities
This double issue of The History of Universities series contains the customary mix of learned texts and book review chapters which look further into the history of higher education. The volume is a combination of original research and invaluable reference material. The texts include those by George Rust, Benet Perera, John Warren, Andrew Reeves, and John W. Boyer. Topics include anatomy, religious education in thirteenth-century England, teaching…
History of Universities
This latest volume in the series of titles on the history of universities contains a mix of learned chapters and book reviews which makes this publication a useful tool for the historian of higher education. This special issue particularly focuses on seventeenth-century Scottish philosophers and their philosophy. The volume is a lively combination of original research and reference material.
History of Universities 2016
Origenian Platonisme’ in Interregnum Cambridge
This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souven…
Projectors and learned projects in early modern England
Commenting in 1692 on the “Projecting Humour that now reigns” in England, Daniel Defoe nicknamed the period the “Projecting Age.” He dated its start to c. 1680, even as he conceded that “it had indeed something of life in the time of the late Civil War” as well. Defoe was wrong. Decades earlier both Elizabethan and Jacobean commentators had inveighed against the rampant passion for schemes, a perception increasingly documented by scholars. For th…
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
The aim of the paper is to analyze the reception and elaboration of Isaac Newton’s Principia, in the Reign of Naples, during the first half of the 18th century. We know that abbot Celestino Galiani was a staunch and active supporter of spreading Newton’s work in the Reign of Naples, as well as in Italy. He was, in fact, among the first in Rome to read both Optice and Principia and to write and disseminate their contents to his friends and followe…
History of Universities
Volume XXIX/1 of History of Universities contains the usual mix of chapters and book reviews. The series is a periodical devoted to the study of every aspect of university history development, structure, teaching, and research from the Middle Ages to the modern period, as well as to the history of scholarship more generally. The coverage of this volume ranges widely geographically, chronically, and in subject-matter.
History of Universities
Experimental Philosophy”
This essay offers a more dynamic, and historically grounded, context to explain how and why various individuals and groups in England adopted the term "experimental philosophy." Before the foundation of the Royal Society, I contend, the term had been utilized promiscuously, its modern signification conspicuously absent. Building on this insight, I examine the seemingly deliberate decision by future members of the Royal Society to avoid using the …
History of Universities
This volume of the History of Universities contains the the usual mix of scholarly chapters and book review chapters. The volume provides a combination of original research and reference material. The topics covered include reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance; references to ancient Greece and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations from 1625 to 1850; the study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteen-century Protestant …
History of Universities
History of Universities
This book is one of the volumes in a series of books covering the history of universities. It contains a mix of learned chapters and book reviews which covers topics related to higher education. The volume provides original research and invaluable reference material.
History of Universities
And Knowledge Shall Be Increased”
In the early years of the seventeenth century, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) introduced an \ningenious and daring exegesis into his apologia for secular learning. Man fell, he argued \nin Valerius Terminus, his first philosophical essay, not for seeking the “pure light of \nnatural knowledge,” but for presuming “to attain to that part of moral knowledge which \ndefineth of good and evil, whereby to dispute God’s commandments and not to depend \nupon …
The Influence of Petrus Ramus
The New Science and Jesuit Science
Until recently, the contribution of the Society of Jesus to the Scientific Revolution remained sketchy at best, as the perception of the Jesuits as plodding pedagogues and obscurantists sanctioned the disregard of their activities. The present volume makes an important contribution toward a more nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a far greater recognition of their contribution to the two poles of modern science…
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
The past two decades have witnessed a striking re evaluation of early modern institutions of higher learning as impoverished intellectual centers, hostile to new modes of thought. The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. The …
Science as a Calling? The Early Modern Dilemma
ArgumentNotwithstanding the preponderance of clerics among early modern scientific practitioners, only scant attention has been paid to the ramifications of their “calling” on their ability to engage freely in scientific studies. Indeed, the overall failure to calibrate the compatibility between full-fledged secular studies and a clerical vocation has led to misconceptions concerning the nature of the participation of ordained men in early modern…
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
The aim of the paper is to analyze the reception and elaboration of Isaac Newton’s Principia, in the Reign of Naples, during the first half of the 18th century. We know that abbot Celestino Galiani was a staunch and active supporter of spreading Newton’s work in the Reign of Naples, as well as in Italy. He was, in fact, among the first in Rome to read both Optice and Principia and to write and disseminate their contents to his friends and followe…
Experimental Philosophy”
This essay offers a more dynamic, and historically grounded, context to explain how and why various individuals and groups in England adopted the term "experimental philosophy." Before the foundation of the Royal Society, I contend, the term had been utilized promiscuously, its modern signification conspicuously absent. Building on this insight, I examine the seemingly deliberate decision by future members of the Royal Society to avoid using the …
Honor Thy Newton
How far has Newtonian scholarship progressed in course of two decades? Until 1990s, those students of other Sir Isaac New ton-the theologian and alchemist wrote as if an apology might in order, or at least a self-justification. Today, opposite appears to case. Theology is at front and center of Newtonian industry, Margaret Jacob informs us in her introduction to Newton and Newtonianism, followed by alchemical-chemical, and ever persistent questio…
When Facts MatterA Social History of Truth
An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum
Edmund Chilmead (1610-54), a little-known scholar and musician, was the author of a possibly unique testimony to the interest among English natural philosophers in the nature of sound and philosophical music theory during the years following the publication of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum (1626). Chilmead’s ‘An Examination... of the Naturall History’ is a manuscript treatise which takes the form of twenty ‘Quaeres’ on the second and third centu…
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility…
Projectors and learned projects in early modern England
Commenting in 1692 on the “Projecting Humour that now reigns” in England, Daniel Defoe nicknamed the period the “Projecting Age.” He dated its start to c. 1680, even as he conceded that “it had indeed something of life in the time of the late Civil War” as well. Defoe was wrong. Decades earlier both Elizabethan and Jacobean commentators had inveighed against the rampant passion for schemes, a perception increasingly documented by scholars. For th…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MORDECHAI FEINGOLD MORDECHAI FEINGOLD Wolfson CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCV, Issue CCCLXXVI, July 1980, Pages 656–657, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCV.CCCLXXVI.656 Published: 01 July 1980
English Scientific Virtuosi in the 16th and 17th Centuries . Barbara Shapiro , Robert G. Frank, Jr
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MORDECHAI FEINGOLD MORDECHAI FEINGOLD Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVIII, Issue CCCLXXXVII, April 1983, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVIII.CCCLXXXVII.417 Published: 01 April 1983
An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum
Edmund Chilmead (1610-54), a little-known scholar and musician, was the author of a possibly unique testimony to the interest among English natural philosophers in the nature of sound and philosophical music theory during the years following the publication of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum (1626). Chilmead’s ‘An Examination... of the Naturall History’ is a manuscript treatise which takes the form of twenty ‘Quaeres’ on the second and third centu…
"Novita Celesti e Crisi del Sapere" International Conference of Galilean Studies, Pisa, Padua, Venice, Florence, 18-26 March 1983
The Aristotelian Tradition and Renaissance Universities . Charles B. Schmitt
The John Tradescants
The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship
The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MORDECHAI FEINGOLD MORDECHAI FEINGOLD Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 981–982, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.981 Published: 01 October 1986
William Whiston, Honest Newtonian
Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment . James R. Jacob
English Science, Bacon to Newton . Brian Vickers
Before Newton
A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science. Barrow is remembered today - if at all - only as Sir Isaac Newton's mentor and patron, but he in fact made important contributions to the disciplines of optics and geometry. Moreover, he was a prolific and influential preacher as well as a renowned classical scholar. By seeking to understand Barrow's mathe…
The Archives of the Royal Society
Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Works written and published in Latin by Elizabethan and Jacobean writers covered a vast range, from brief poetic trifles to massive scholarly, humanist and scientific treatises. Among its authors were some of the greatest intellects of the day; and study of Latin dedications and commendatory verses makes clear the importance of Latinate culture in the Court as well as in the universities and learned professions. English renaissance Latin culture …
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MORDECHAI FEINGOLD MORDECHAI FEINGOLD Virginia Polytechnic Institue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 457-a–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.457-a Published: 01 April 1991
Before Newton
A Catalogue of Seventeenth-Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. Peter Krivatsy
Forgers and Critics
Henry More
Authorizing Words
Newton, Leibniz, and Barrow Too
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MORDECHAI FEINGOLD MORDECHAI FEINGOLD Virginia Polytechnic Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1025-a–1025, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1025-a Published: 01 October 1993
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