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Optics, Imagination, and the Construction of Scientific Observation in Kepler's New Science
- Raz Chen-Morris
- Philosophy
- 1 October 2001
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
Shadows of Instruction: Optics and Classical Authorities in Kepler's Somnium
- Raz Chen-Morris
- Philosophy
- 19 September 2005
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… Expand
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order
- Raz Chen-Morris
- Philosophy
- 18 September 2014
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
From emblems to diagrams: Kepler's new pictorial language of scientific representation.
- Raz Chen-Morris
- Physics, Medicine
- Renaissance quarterly
- 2009
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,… Expand
The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law: (2) The Use and Non-Use of Mathematics
- O. Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
- History
- 1 March 2006
The following is the second part of our Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law. Together these papers examine the transformation of the inverse square ratio from its origins in a metaphysical image of… Expand
The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law: (1) Metaphysical Images and Mathematical Practices
- O. Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
- History
- 1 December 2005
The following paper, together with its sequel ("The use and non-use of mathematics"), is a study in the mathematization of nature. It looks into the history of one of the most emblematic achievements… Expand