Rivka Feldhay, Cohn Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Place and date of birth: Israel, 3.9.1947

Marital Status: Married, 2 children.

 

Professional Education

1970: B. A. in History and English language and literature, Haifa University, Haifa

1972: Teaching Certificate (English), Haifa University, Haifa

1980:  M. A. in History of Science (summa cum laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1986:  Ph. D. in History of Science (summa cum laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

 

Thesis and Dissertation        

Subject of M.A Thesis: Science and Religion in the Life and Work of Robert Boyle Supervisor: Prof.Yehuda Elkana and Dr.Michael Heyd, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Subject of doctoral dissertation: The Intellectual and Institutional Origins of the Dialogue between Galileanism and Anti-Galileanism: 1540-1616

Supervisor: Prof. Yehuda Elkana, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

 

 Further Studies

1975-1978: Social Anthropology with Professor Robin Horton, University of Ife, Nigeria

 

Academic Appointments

1973-1974: TA and Research Assistant to Prof. J.Talmon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1974-1975: TA and Research Assistant to Prof. E. Sivan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1981-1982:  Instructor, History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem     

1984-1987:  Instructor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

1989-1990: Lecturer, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

1990- 1997: Senior Lecturer, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University,

1997 - :  Associate Professor,  Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University,

                      

Other Academic Positions

1987-1988: Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University

                   Visiting Lecturer at History of Science Program, Stanford University

1988-1989: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)

1993-1997: Member of the Editorial Board of Zmanim (A Historical Quarterly of Tel Aviv University)

1994-1995: Fellow at the Internazionales Forschungszentrum                 Kulturwissenschaften, Wien (International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna)

1995-:  Fellow at the Dibner Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

1995-1996: Member of the Council of the Historical Society of Israel

1995-1998: Director of research project: “Europe in the Middle East. Political Key       Concepts in the Dialogue of Cultures”, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in cooperation with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)

1997 -: Fellow at the Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science), Berlin

1997-2003: Director of the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

1997-: Member of Committee of Doctoral Students, School of History, Tel Aviv University

1998-: Member of the Editorial Board of Science in Context (Cambridge University Press)

1998-2003: Member of Advisers to The Oxford Companion to The History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press)

1998-1999: Director of the Van Leer Seminar, VLJI

1999-2003: Member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science

1999-: Member of the Advisory Board of Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science), Berlin

1999-: Member of the Academic Committee of the Open University, Israel

1999-2000: Member of the Advisory Committee of Mediterranean Cultures Project, VLJI

2000-: Member of the Editorial Board of Theory and Criticism (A Journal for Critical Thought in Hebrew)

2000-: Academic Director of the Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Socoiology of Science 

2001-: Fellow at Collegium Helveticum der ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich

2001-: Member of Advisory Board of Humanities Center, Central European University, Budapest

2002-: Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem

Director of Research Project: “Russians in Israel”

2003-2005: Member of research group: “Knowledge and Belief” at the Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)

2003-: Member of research group: “History of Mechanics’ at Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)

2003-: Member of Committee of Higher Appointments, Open University

Reports on Research Grants, Curricula, Appointments

and refereed Publications

1998: Evaluation of candidate for position in Bar Ilan University

1999: Evaluation of candidate for position in the Technion

1999: Evaluation of research proposal for Israeli Science Foundation

1999: Evaluation of M.A. university program for Council of Higher Education

1999: Evaluation of M.A & Ph.D university program for Council of Higher Education

2000: Evaluation of doctoral thesis for Hebrew University

2000: Evaluation of research proposal for Israeli Science Foundation

2002: Evaluation of candidate for professorship at Open University

2002: Evaluation of proposal for Israeli Science Foundation

2003: Evaluation of M.A. and Ph.D university program for Council of Higher Education

2003: Evaluation of candidate for professorship at ETH, Zurich

1995- Evaluation of manuscripts for Zmanim, Science in Context, Theory and Criticism, Shazar Center, Magnes Press, Isis, Harvard University Press 

Active Participation in Scientific Meetings

R. Feldhay, “University and Extra-University Culture in Counter-Reformation Italy” (a paper delivered at the symposium on the History of Universities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 1984)

R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church” (a paper delivered at a conference on Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University, April 1985)

R. Feldhay, “The Jesuits’ Educational Ideology: From ‘officium docendi’ to ‘ministerium’” (a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1985)

R. Feldhay, “On Stretching the Permissible: The Place of Magic in Judaism according to a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician. A Comment on D. Ruderman’s Paper” (a commentary on a paper delivered at the international symposium organized by S.N. Eisenstadt and M. Silver, Jerusalem, February 1986)

R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “Hierarchy and Heresy” (a paper delivered at the Boston Colloquium, Boston University, September 1987)

R. Feldhay, “Authority and Authorship in La Cena delle Ceneri” (a paper delivered at  Johns Hopkins Colloquium, September 1987)

R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church: A Conflict of Science and Religion?” ( a paper delivered at Stanford Colloquium, January 1988)

R. Feldhay and M. Heyd, “The Discourse of Pious Science,” (a paper delivered at the International Workshop: Fifty Years to the Merton Thesis, Tel Aviv/Jerusalem, May 1988)

R. Feldhay, “From Bruno to Galileo,” (a paper delivered at Stanford Humanities Center, June 1988)

R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “The Scientific Revolution: A Story of Survival in Culture,” (a paper delivered at a workshop in Royaumont, December 1988)

R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church,” (a paper delivered at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Colloquium, January 1989)

R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Theatre and Jesuit Science” (a paper delivered at Stanford University, October 1990)

R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Theatre as a Place of Knowledge” (a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Seattle, Washington, October 1990)

R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Ballet as a Model of Representation” (a paper delivered at the W.A. Clark Library, UCLA, October 1991)

R. Feldhay, “The Narrative Constraints on Historical Writing: The Case of the Scientific Revolution” (a paper given at the Summer Academy in Berlin, July 1992)

R. Feldhay, “Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan -- Galileo’s Rhetoric” (a paper delivered at a conference on Science and Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh, November 1992)

R. Feldhay, “The Hermeneutic of Heaven: Christopher Scheiner’s Letters on Sunspots” (a paper delivered at the International Congress of the History of Science, Zaragoza, August 1993)

R. Feldhay, “The Paradox of Self Assertion at the Dawn of Modern Science” (a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993)

R. Feldhay, “Israeliness and Womanhood” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at a conference on Womanhood and National Discourse, sponsored by the Adenauer Foundation and organized in cooperation with Dr. Orli Lubin, Jerusalem, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 1993)

R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Education at the Dawn of Modernity” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Annual meeting of the Israeli Historical Society, Jerusalem, July 1994)

R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science” (a paper delivered at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien - International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, November 1994)

R. Feldhay, “Paulus Guldin and his Dissertation on the Motion of the Earth 1635” (a paper delivered at the Dibner Institute, MIT, March 1995)

R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse” (a paper delivered at a conference on the Coming to Be and Going Away of Scientific Objects, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, September 1995)

R. Feldhay, “Future Contingents and Mathematical Entities -- Jesuit Theology and the Meaning of scientia media” (a paper delivered at a conference on Scienza e Sacra Scrittura, Udine, October 1995)

R. Feldhay, “The Praxis of Rethinking the Enlightenment in the Middle Eastern Context” (a paper delivered at a conference on Rethinking -- Not Unthinking -- The Enlightenment, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, November 1995)

R. Feldhay, “The Narrative of Galileo and the Church” (a paper delivered at a conference on Recent Galileo Scholarship at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, January 1996)

R. Feldhay, “Autobiographical Textures: Israeli Womanhood in Zionist Discourse” (a paper delivered at a conference on Intellectual History and Intellectual Biography, in Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien - International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, March 1996)

R. Feldhay, “Can the Earth be Moved by a Flea’s Leap”? (a paper delivered at the International Workshop in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Models of Critique, May 1996)

R. Feldhay and Sabetai Unguru, “Greek Mathematical Discourse: Some Examples of Tensions and Gaps” (a paper delivered at the International Conference on Ancient Mathematics in Delphi, August 1996)  

R. Feldhay and P. Burgard, Baroque ReVisions, a conference organized Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien - International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna and Melk, 16-20 October 1996

R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science” (a paper delivered at an international conference in Boston College on The Jesuits: Culture, Learning and the Arts, 27 May-1 June 1997)

R. Feldhay, “On The Agony of Knowledge” (a paper delivered at an international workshop in Potsdam, June 1997)

R. Feldhay, “Commentary on Shaman Experience and Explorers’ Experience” (delivered at an international conference on The Varieties of Scientific Experience, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June 1997)

R. Feldhay, “Knowledge, Politics and Religion in Israel” (a paper delivered in Tokyo, September 1997)

R. Feldhay, “Israeli Youngsters’ Society in an age of Globalization” (a paper delivered at the VLJI in an evening on Gadi Taub’s book, November 1997)

R. Feldhay, “Commentary on Judicial Proof and Authority Arguments” (a paper delivered at an international conference on Demonstration, Test, Proof, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June 1998)

R. Feldhay, “Be Sober and Reasonable” (a paper delivered at the VLJI in an evening on Michael Heyd’s book, January 1998)

R. Feldhay, “Makom, Avoda” [Place, Work]: Israelis, Palestinians and Foreign Workers” (a paper delivered at an international conference on The Conflictual Construction of Identities in the Middle East, VLJI, Jerusalem, December 1998)

R. Feldhay, “La construction conflictuelles des identitie’s” (a paper delivered at an international conference on L’Etat d’Israel et les Appartenances, Villa Gillet, Lyon, December 1998)

R. Feldhay, “Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church: The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation” (Hebrew, paper delivered at The Bar Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, VLJI, November 1999)

R. Feldhay, “Alternative Modernities – The Middle Eastern Perspective” (a paper delivered at an international workshop on Culture and History in a Post-Colonial Age, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien – International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, April 2000

R. Feldhay, “In search of lost origins: The Galileo affair as a Whig identity narrative”(Hebrew, a paper delivered on Independence Day: Rector’s Lectures, Tel Aviv University, May 2000)

R. Feldhay, “On Ideas and their Social Context” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the School of History, Tel Aviv University, January 2001)

R. Feldhay, “Is Science a Discourse?” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at a meeting on Psychoanalysis, Science and Ideology, VLJI, March 2001)

R. Feldhay, Women in Law (an international workshop organized at the VLJI, March 2001)

R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: Science, Religion and Politics in Early Modernity” (a paper delivered at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, April 2001)

R. Feldhay and Daniel Kauz, “Knowledge, Religion and State: Authorities, Heresies and Hierarchies in Modernity” (opening address to conference organized at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, June 2001)

R. Feldhay, “Providence and Free Will: The Cultural Construction of Knowledge and Belief in Western Christendom” (a paper delivered at a workshop on Knowledge and Belief, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, June 2001)

R. Feldhay, Scientist, Heretic, Courtier: The Case of Galileo Galilei (Hebrew, a series of lectures delivered at the Israeli Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, February 2002)

One.         In search of lost origins

Two.        Through the mirror of baroque and enlightenment

Three.     The plural faces of modernity

R. Feldhay, “The Betrayal of the Intellectuals” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the VLJI, Jerusalem, April 2002)

R. Feldhay, “Knowledge, Religion and State in Modernity” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Van Leer Seminar, June 2002)

R. Feldhay, “Galileo: A Cultural Hero” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Institute of Biology, New Ziona, July 2002)

R. Feldhay, “Galileo: Scientist or Heretic?” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Astronomical Society, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, July 2002)

R. Feldhay, “Strangers to Ourselves: Identity Construction and Historical Research”, (Key-note lecture delivered at an international conference in the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, December 2002)

R. Feldhay, A Comment to: Questions and Answers: Knowledge Production and the Functions of a University (delivered at a conference in Central European University, Budapest, January 2003)

R. Feldhay, “The Pleasure and Agony of Biographical Research: The Case of Galileo” (Hebrew, a lecture delivered at the School of History, Tel Aviv University, April 2003)

R. Feldhay, “Scientific Discourse and the Discourse on Science” (a paper delivered at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, May 2003) 

R. Feldhay, “On the Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge by Jesuits” (a paper delivered in a conference on Science Teaching in Early Modernity, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze, June 2003)

R. Feldhay, “Yeshayahu Lebovitz and his Separation of Science and Religion: A Position in the Cultural Field” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at a conference on Leibovitz: Conservatism and Radicalism, for the 100th birthday of Leibovitz, VLJI, June 2003)

R. Feldhay, “Orthodoxy and Subversion in Jesuit Mechanical Texts” (a paper delivered at a workshop on Knowledge and Belief, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, September 2003)

Academic and Professional Awards

1974: Hebrew University Scholarship

1979: Edelstein Center Scholarship

1987: Kennedy Lee Award, Hebrew University

1988: Ethel Wattis Kimball Award, Stanford University

1989: Rector’s Research Fellowship, Tel Aviv University

1989-1992: Allon Fellowship, Tel Aviv University

1991: Basic Research Fund, Tel Aviv University

1990-1993: Research Fund, The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities

1995-1998: Research Fund, Volkswagen Foundation (receiver: VLJI)

2002: Research Fund from the European Union for a series on Science in Literature

 

Membership in Professional Societies

Israeli Historical Society, Israel.

History of Science Society, USA.

Renaissance Society of America

Students Supervised

 Doctoral Students:

Chanan Yoran, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. (together with Prof. Miri Eliav-Feldon). Ph.D. thesis: “Erasmus and Thomas More: Between the Republic of Letters and the World of Politics” (graduated in 1997)

Raz Chen, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Prof. Sabetai Unguru). Ph.D. thesis: “The Renaissance Discourse of Vision and Kepler’s New Science” (graduated in 2001)

Doli Ben Habib, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Prof. Sasson Somech). Ph. D. thesis: “The Formation of Eastern Jews’ Subjectivity - the case of Sami Michael” (graduated in 2003)

Amos Edelheit, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. (together with Sr. Jill Kray from the Warburg Institute in London) Ph.D. thesis: “On De Christiana Religione of Marsilio Ficino and The Apology of Pico della Mirandola: Humanistic Theology in Crisis” (Research proposal approved)

Amos Granit, Program for Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. Ph.D. thesis: “Martial Epistemologies” (Research proposal approved)

Arie Kremf, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D thesis, “The Central Bank of Israel: Sociological, Political and Historical Contexts,1954-2001” (Research proposal approved)

Roni Mirkin, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (together with Linda Ben Zvi), Ph. D. thesis: “‘Be and Seem’: Theatricality and Ambiguity in English Renaissance Portraiture and Costume” (Research proposal approved)

Itzhak Benyamini, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideasm Tel Aviv University (together with Michael Mach), Ph.D. thesis, “The Theological Infrastructure of Lacan’s Psychoanalytical Theory” (Research proposal approved)

Moshe Arkin, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph. D. thesis, “Michaelangelo’s Discourse of Love” (Stage A)

Michael Elazar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph. D. thesis, History of Mechanics (Stage A)

M. A. Students

Ofer Gal, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Tropes and Topics in Scientific Discourse -- Galileo’s On Motion” (graduated in 1992)

Roni Mirkin, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (together with Dr. Ahuva Belkin). M.A. thesis: “The Construction of an ‘Inner Self’ -- A New Reading of Elizabethan Cloths and Portraits” (graduated in 1992)

Offra Regev, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Art as Criticism and the Desire of Philosophy: Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo da Vinci” (graduated in July 1995)

Achva Karel, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “The Concept of Death in Freud, Heidegger and Irigaray”,  (graduated in 1997)  

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Amos Edelheit, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M.A.thesis: “The Discorse on Love in the Renaissance” (graduated in 1998)

Tamar Mishmar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M.A. thesis (together with Hanan Hever), “Critical Practices in the Constitution of Subjectivity: Rachel Eitan and Netiva Ben Yehuda” (graduated in 2000)

Michael Elazar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M. A. thesis (together with Shabetai Unguru), “The Theory of Configuaration of Nicholas Oresme” (graduated in 2000)

Itay Sapir, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Darkness in the Kingdom of Minerva: Adam Elsheimer, Tenebrism in Baroque Painting and its Epistemological Origins(graduated in 2001)

Amos Granit, Program of Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Martial Epistemologies: Knowledge, Intelligence and Military Systems” (graduated in 2001)

Zvi Ben Saadon, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M. A. thesis, “The Network and the Kingdom – on Metaphor and Analogy in Galileo’s Scientific Discourse” (graduated in 2002)

Irena Tachtarova, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Dr.Igal Halfin). Ph. D. thesis: “”Before and After the Gates of Zion: The Russian Immigration of the 1990’s and Israeli Society” (at work)

List of Publications

Books

R. Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue? Cambridge University Press 1995 (303 pp.) [reprint 1999]

R. Feldhay, The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science 1630-1690, Stanford University Press (forthcoming) (about 300 pp.)

R. Feldhay, Scientist, Heretic, Courtier: The Case of Galileo Galilei (Hebrew, Van Leer,/Hakibbutz Hameuhad (about 200 pp. forthcoming)

 
Edited Books

R. Feldhay and Y. Elkana (eds., with introduction),  Around Merton: Catholic and Protestant Science in the 17th Century, in the series Science in Context, Cambridge University Press, 302 pp.

E. Etkes & R. Feldhay (eds.), (Hebrew) Education and History: Political and Cultural Contexts, (Hebrew), Jerusalem 1998

Articles

Refereed Journals

R. Feldhay, “Celestial Novelties and Crises of Knowledge”, (Hebrew), Zmanim, 1984

R. Feldhay, “Knowledge and Salvation in Jesuit Culture”, Science in Context, 1:2 (1987) pp. 195-213

R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “Heresy and Hierarchy: The Authorization of Giordano Bruno”, Stanford Humanities Review (1989), 1:1, pp. 118-138

R. Feldhay and M. Heyd, “The Discourse of Pious Science”, Science in Context  (1989), 3:1, pp. 109-142

R. Feldhay, “A Feminine Midrash” (Hebrew), Theory and Criticism (1992), 2, pp. 69-88

R. Feldhay, “The Narrative Constraints on Scientific Writing: The Case of the Scientific Revolution”, Science in Context (1994), 7:1, pp. 7-24

R. Feldhay, “The Passage to Modernity in the Catholic Church: The Case of Jesuit Science” (Hebrew), Zmanim (1994), 49, pp. 25-34

R. Feldhay, “Why do we need Deconstruction to read a book of Geometry?”, (Hebrew) Zmanim (1996), 55, pp. 54-62

R. Feldhay, “Nicolas Copernic: Positions de Jesuites”, Les Cahiers de Science & Vie,  

(1997), 39, pp. 60-70

R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Texts in their Cultural Contexts: Jesuit Science in Early Modernity” (Hebrew), Zmanim (1999), 66, pp. 64-76

R. Feldhay, “Recent Narratives of Galileo and the Church or: The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation”, Science in Context (2000), 13: 4, pp. 489-509 (repr. J. Renn (ed.), Galileo in Context, Cambridge University Press 2001, pp. 219-239)

R. Feldhay, “Copernicus, Galileo and the Inquisition”, Essay Review on Pierre-Noel Mayaud, S.J., La Condamnations des Livres Coperniciens: A la lumie`re de documents ine’dits des Congregation de l’Index et de l’Inquisition, in Journal for the History of Astronomy (2002), XXXIII, pp. 280-284

R. Feldhay, “On the Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge by Jesuits”, Journal of Science and Education (forthcoming, about 30 pp.)

Refereed Books

R. Feldhay, “Catholicism and the Emergence of Galilean Science: A Conflict between Science and Religion”?, in S. N. Eisenstadt and I. Silver (eds.), Cultural Traditions and Worlds of Knowledge, Explorations in the Sociology of Knowledge, pp. 139-163, JAI Press 1988

R. Feldhay, “Critical Reactions to the Occult: A Comment” in E. Ullmann-Margalit (ed.), The Scientific Enterprise, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992, pp. 93-101

R. Feldhay, “Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan - Galileo’s Rhetoric”, in H. Krips, H. E. McGuire, T. Melia (eds.), Science, Reason, and Rhetoric, pp. 119-152, University of Pittsburgh/Universitatsverlag Konstanz 1995

R. Feldhay, “The use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited”, in P. Machamer (ed.), A Companion to Galileo, Cambridge University Press 1998, pp. 80-146

R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science”, in J. O’Malley, S. J. et al. (eds.), The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts 1540-1773, University of Toronto Press 1999, pp. 107-131

R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and his Dissertatio de motu terrae”, in L. Daston (ed.), Biographies of Scientific Objects, University of Chicago Press 2000, pp. 42-67

R. Feldhay, “Giordano Bruno Nolanus: Authoritarian Sage and Martyr for Free Speech”, in Lord Dahrendorf et al (eds.), The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, Central European University Press 2000, pp. 321-337

R. Feldhay, “Science and Religion in Early Modernity”, in L. Daston and K. Park (eds.), Cultural Meanings of Early Modern Science, Cambridge History of Science Part IV, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, about 90 pp.)

R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: Science, Religion and Politics in Early Modernity”, in Helga Novotni et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch 2001 des Collegium Helveticum der ETH Zurich, pp. 293-315

R. Feldhay, “Strangers to Ourselves: Identity Construction and Historical Research”, in M. Zuckermann (ed.), Psychoanalyse und Geschichte in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fuer deutsche Geschichte, (Guettingen 2004, forthcoming)

R. Feldhay, “Yeshaiahu Leibovitz and his Separation of Science and Religion”, in A. Ravitzky (ed.), Yehaiahu Leibovitz: Conservatism and Radicalism (forthcoming) 

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

R. Feldhay and S. Unguru, “Greek Mathematical Discourse: Some Examples of Tensions and Gaps”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ancient Mathematics in Delphi, 1997

R. Feldhay, “La construction conflictuelle des identite’s, L’Etat d’Israel et Les Appartenances, Villa Gillet 1999, pp.21-35

Book Reviews

R. Feldhay, The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science, edited by C. V. Coyne, S. J. M. Heller, J. Zycinski in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences (1987) 37:118, pp. 177-180

R. Feldhay, The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, edited by R. Kelley and R. H. Popkin in Isis (1993) 84:4, pp. 793-795

R. Feldhay, Copernico, Galilei e la Chiesa: Fine della Controversia (1820): Gli Atti del Santo’Uffizio, A cura di W. Brandmuller e E. J. Greipl, in Isis (1996), 87:3, pp. 556-7

R. Feldhay, Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters, edited by M. Feingold, in Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)

R. Feldhay, La Contre-Reforme Mathematique, by A. Romano, in Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming)

R. Feldhay, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe by D. Ruderman, in Zion, (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

Other publications:

R. Feldhay, “Memoirs in Black and White”, Jerusalem Quarterly, 14, 1980

R. Feldhay, “Throughout the dark glass of language”, (Hebrew) Politica, November 1992

R. Feldhay and Azmi Bishara, “Postmodernism is Modern”, (Hebrew), Davar, January 1993

R. Feldhay and Azmi Bishara, ”The Passage to a New Enlightenment”, (Hebrew) Davar, June 1993

R. Feldhay, “Women’s Literature’, (Hebrew) Theory and Criticism (1994) 5

R. Feldhay, “Wer nicht mehr spricht, stirbt” (interview), Die Zeit, April 2002

R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: The Galileo Affair through the Mirror of Identity”, (Hebrew) Bashaar (2002), pp. 26-31

R. Feldhay, “Is Science a Discourse? On Science and Objectivity” (Hebrew), Galileo, 57, (2003), pp. 26-38.

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