Papers by Raz Chen-Morris
<i>Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture</i>
The Sixteenth century journal, Aug 31, 2017
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe
Journal for the History of Astronomy, Jul 31, 2023
Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 17, 2019
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order
The European Legacy, Aug 30, 2014
Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo
The Sixteenth century journal, 2000
... PAINTING THE HEAVENS : ART AND SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF GALILEO / EILEEN REEVES. ... And I am es... more ... PAINTING THE HEAVENS : ART AND SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF GALILEO / EILEEN REEVES. ... And I am especially grateful to Noel Swerdlow, who has always been ready to read and comment upon the various versions of this manuscript, to countenance arguments offered by ...
Galileo, the Jesuits, and the controversy over the comets
Raz Chen-Morris. Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility. xi + 247 pp., figs., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. $79.95 (cloth)
Isis, 2017
Metaphysical images and mathematical practices: The archaeology of the inverse square law part I
Renaissance Quarterly, 2017
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2013
Mirrors, Enigmas and Lenses: Visual Knowledge from the Middle Ages to the New Science / מראות, חידות ועדשות: ידע חזותי מימי-הביניים ועד למדע החדש
מי המציא את המשקפיים? התשובה על כך איננה ידועה. אפשר רק להצביע על ההופעות הראשונות של המשקפיים בא... more מי המציא את המשקפיים? התשובה על כך איננה ידועה. אפשר רק להצביע על ההופעות הראשונות של המשקפיים באמנות החל מסוף המאה השלוש-עשרה, ולצדן דיונים כתובים בנושא עדשות ושימושיהן. רז חן-מוריס בוחן כאן את השינויים העמוקים בתפישות המדעיות והתאולוגיות אשר התחוללו בתרבות המערב בין המאה השלוש-עשרה למאה השבע-עשרה בעקבות המצאתם של מכשירי עזר לראייה. התפישות של העולם העתיק, שעליהן אף התבססו הסכולסטיקנים בימי-הביניים, הניחו כי הראייה הישירה באמצעות העין הבלתי-מזוינת היא המקור לידע אמיתי, ואילו כל זכוכית חוצצת ומסלפת; מן המאה השש-עשרה ואילך, לעומת זאת, דווקא העדשות נחשבו לאמצעים המעניקים לאדם אפשרות לראות את העולם כהווייתו.
“The Quality of Nothing:” Shakespearean Mirrors and Kepler’s Visual Economy of Science
Science in the Age of Baroque, 2012
The gradual dissolution of early modern trust in vision as a source of knowledge of the natural w... more The gradual dissolution of early modern trust in vision as a source of knowledge of the natural world reached its climax towards the end of the sixteenth century. The outlines of this distrust are poignantly expressed in some of Shakespeare’s major plays. Shakespeare’s protagonists initiate a thorough investigation into what kind of knowledge is possible in a world of apparitions and visual deceptions. In his 1604 treatise on optics Kepler confronts similar doubts, suggesting a new visual economy based on “unsubstantial” shadows “similar to nothing”, artificially produced within a camera obscura. In his short 1611 musings with the six-cornered snowflake, Kepler suggests mathematical ways for the observation, measurement and manipulation of nihil (i.e., Nothing). Confronting this new visual economy and the ensuing epistemological difficulties early modern natural philosophers suggested along with their scientific methods, a new poetics that allows the mind’s eye to intuit a new sort of knowledge founded on a new super-sensory sight.
Science’s Disappearing Observer
Baroque Science
Galileo's Construction of Idealized Fall in the Void
The College Mathematics Journal, 2006
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century - by Olivier Darrigol
Centaurus, 2013
Renaissance Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity: Introduction
The European Legacy, 2015
Over the course of the twentieth century, the search for the origins of modernity shifted from th... more 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...
Framing the appearances in the fifteenth century : Alberti, Cusa, Regiomontanus, and Copernicus
This paper discusses the changing epistemological status of appearances in Renaissance mathematic... more This paper discusses the changing epistemological status of appearances in Renaissance mathematics from Alberti&#39;s Della pittura through the debate between Regiomontanus and Cusanus on the latter method of squaring the circle to Copernicus&#39; Commentariolus and De Revolutionibus. Published in F. Jamil Ragep and Rivka Feldhay, Before Copernicus The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century (2017) pp. 110-141
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