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- Publications
- Influence
Science in the age of Baroque
- O. Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
- Art
- 2013
1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge.- A. Order.- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural… Expand
Effects of Computerized Mediation of Analogical Thinking in Kindergartens
The current study describes an attempt to improve children's analogical thinking through the use of a ‘humanized’ computer program. This program was experimentally designed to incorporate several… Expand
Long-Term Follow-up in Managing Anaplastic Astrocytoma by Multimodality Approach With Surgery Followed by Postoperative Radiotherapy and PCV-Chemotherapy: Phase II Trial
- I. Ron, O. Gal, Tal H. Vishne, F. Kovner
- Medicine
- American journal of clinical oncology
- 1 June 2002
Overall survival and progression-free survival after 5 and 10 years of 31 patients with malignant glioma treated by a combination of surgery, postoperative radiotherapy, and chemotherapy with a PCV… Expand
The body as object and instrument of knowledge : embodied empiricism in early modern science
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative… Expand
The ‘absolute existence’ of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view
- Victor D. Boantza, O. Gal
- Medicine
- The British Journal for the History of Science
- 2 February 2011
Abstract Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute… Expand
Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
- O. Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
- Physics
- 2010
The optical instruments developed through the seventeenth century allowed peering into the very far and the very small; a spectacle never before experienced. The telescope, and later the microscope,… Expand
Producing knowledge in the workshop: Hooke's ‘inflection’ from optics to planetary motion
- O. Gal
- Physics
- 1 June 1996
Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt
- O. Gal, Ofer Raz Chen-Morris
- Philosophy
- 1 April 2010
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… Expand
From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science
- O. Gal
- Art, Mathematics
- 2012
The Inverse Square Law (ISL) of Universal Gravitation is the epitome of the great achievement of mathematical natural philosophy. But what exactly was this achievement? Newton and his followers… Expand