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Almost Ring Theory

By: Ofer Gabber,Lorenzo Ramero

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The authors develop thorough and complete foundations for the method of almost etale extensions, which is at the basis of Faltings' approach to p-adic Hodge theory. The central notion is that of an "almost ring". Almost rings are the commutative unitary monoids in a tensor category obtained as a quotient V-Mod/S of the category V-Mod of modules over a fixed ring V; the subcategory S consists of all modules annihilated by a fixed ideal m of V, satisfying certain natural conditions. The reader is assumed to be familiar with general categorical notions, some basic commutative algebra and some advanced homological algebra (derived categories, simplicial methods). Apart from these general prerequisites, the text is as self-contained as possible. One novel feature of the book - compared with Faltings' earlier treatment - is the systematic exploitation of the cotangent complex, especially for the study of deformations of almost algebras.

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3540450963

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The Origins of Modern Science

From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

By: Ofer Gal

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The Origins of Modern Science

From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

By: Ofer Gal

This book attempts to introduce to its readers major chapters in the history of science. It tries to present science as a human endeavor - a great achievement, and all the more human for it. In place of the story of progress and its obstacles or a parade of truths revealed, this book stresses the contingent and historical nature of scientific knowledge. Knowledge, science included, is always developed by real people, within communities, answering immediate needs and challenges shaped by place, culture, and historical events with resources drawn from their present and past. Chronologically, this book spans from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's Principle. The book starts in the high Middle Ages and proceeds to introduce the readers to the historian's way of inquiry. At the center of this introduction is the Gothic Cathedral - a grand achievement of human knowledge, rooted in a complex cultural context, and a powerful metaphor for science. The book alternates thematic chapters with chapters concentrating on an era. Yet it attempts to integrate discussion of all different aspects of the making of knowledge: social and cultural settings, challenges and opportunities; intellectual motivations and worries; epistemological assumptions and technical ideas; instruments and procedures. The cathedral metaphor is evoked intermittently throughout, to tie the many themes discussed to the main lesson: that the complex set of beliefs, practices, and institutions we call science is a particular, contingent human phenomenon"--

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1316510301

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Baroque Science

By: Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris

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Baroque Science

By: Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris

Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.

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University of Chicago Press

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022621298X

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Pseudo-reductive Groups

By: Brian Conrad,Ofer Gabber,Gopal Prasad

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Pseudo-reductive Groups

By: Brian Conrad,Ofer Gabber,Gopal Prasad

Pseudo-reductive groups arise naturally in the study of general smooth linear algebraic groups over non-perfect fields and have many important applications. This monograph provides a comprehensive treatment of the theory of pseudo-reductive groups and gives their classification in a usable form. In this second edition there is new material on relative root systems and Tits systems for general smooth affine groups, including the extension to quasi-reductive groups of famous simplicity results of Tits in the semisimple case. Chapter 9 has been completely rewritten to describe and classify pseudo-split absolutely pseudo-simple groups with a non-reduced root system over arbitrary fields of characteristic 2 via the useful new notion of 'minimal type' for pseudo-reductive groups. Researchers and graduate students working in related areas, such as algebraic geometry, algebraic group theory, or number theory will value this book, as it develops tools likely to be used in tackling other problems.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316300056

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The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

By: Ofer Shiff

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The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

By: Ofer Shiff

In early February 1949, American Jewry’s most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), had summarily resigned from all his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. During the second half of the 1940s, Silver was the most outspoken proponent of the founding of a sovereign Jewish state. He was the most instrumental American Jewish leader in the political struggle that led to the foundation of the State of Israel. Paradoxically, this historic victory also heralded Silver’s personal defeat. Soon after Israel’s declaration of independence, Silver and many of his American Zionist colleagues were relegated to the sidelines of the Zionist movement. Almost overnight, the influential leader—one who had been admired and feared by supporters and opponents—was stripped of his power within both the Zionist and the American Jewish arenas. Shiff’s book discerns the various aspects of the striking turnabout in Silver’s political fate, describing the personal tragic story of a leader who was defeated by his own victory and the much broader intra-Zionist battle that erupted in full force immediately after the founding of Israel. Drawing extensively on Silver’s own archival material, Shiff presents an enlightening portrait of a critical episode in Jewish history. This book is highly relevant for anyone who attempts to understand the complex homeland–diaspora relations between Israel and American Jewry.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815610351

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9780815610359

Survival Through Integration

American Reform Jewish Universalism And The Holocaust

By: Ofer Shiff

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Survival Through Integration

American Reform Jewish Universalism And The Holocaust

By: Ofer Shiff

This book describes the social and cultural challenges posed by the Holocaust from the subjective angle of those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the universalistic American Jewish Reform belief in integration even in view of the disheartening realities of the 1930s and the 1940s.

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BRILL

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900414109X

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Advance Elements of Laser Circuits and Systems

Nonlinear Applications in Engineering

By: Ofer Aluf

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Advance Elements of Laser Circuits and Systems

Nonlinear Applications in Engineering

By: Ofer Aluf

This book on Advance Elements of Laser circuits and systems Nonlinearity applications in engineering addresses two separate engineering and scientific areas, and presents advanced analysis methods for Laser circuits and systems that cover a broad range of engineering and scientific applications. The book analyzed Laser circuits and systems as linear and nonlinear dynamical systems and there limit cycles, bifurcation, and limit cycle stability by using nonlinear dynamic theory. Further, it discussed a broad range of bifurcations related to Laser systems and circuits, starting from laser system differential equations and their bifurcations, delay differential equations (DDEs) are a function of time delays, delay dependent parameters, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling. It combines graphical information with analytical analysis to effectively study the local stability of Laser systems models involving delay dependent parameters. Specifically, the stability of a given steady state is determined by the graphs of some functions of which can be expressed explicitly. The Laser circuits and systems are Laser diode circuits, MRI system Laser diode circuitry, Electron-photon exchanges into VCSEL, Ti: Sapphire laser systems, Ion channel and long-wavelength lasers, Solid state lasers, Solid state laser controlled by semiconductor devices, microchip solid-state laser, Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state laser, Nd:YAG, Mid-Infrared and Q-switched microchip lasers, Gas laser systems, copper vapor laser (CVL) circuitry, Dual-wavelength laser systems, Dual-wavelength operation of a Ti:sapphire laser, Diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YVO4 yellow laser, Asymmetric dual quantum well lasers, Tm3+-doped silica fibre lasers, Terahertz dual-wavelength quantum cascade laser. The Book address also the additional areas, Laser X guiding system, Plasma diagnostics, Laser Beam shaping, Jitter and crosstalk, Plasma mirror systems, and High power Laser/Target diagnostic system optical elements. The book is unique in its emphasis on practical and innovative engineering and scientific applications. All conceptual Laser circuits are innovative and can be broadly implemented in many engineering applications. The dynamics of Laser circuits and systems provides several ways to use them in a variety of applications covering wide areas. This book is aimed at electrical and electronics engineers, students and researchers in physics as well. It is also aimed for research institutes in lasers and plasma physics and gives good comprehensive in laser and plasma systems. In each chapter, the concept is developed from basic assumptions up to the final engineering and scientific outcomes. The scientific background is explained at basic and advance levels and closely integrated with mathematical theory. Many examples are presented in this book and it is also ideal for intermediate level courses at graduate level studies. It is also ideal for engineer who has not had formal instruction in nonlinear dynamics, but who now desires to fill the gap between innovative Laser circuits/systems and advance mathematical analysis methods

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Springer Nature

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3030641031

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9783030641030

Flawed System/Flawed Self

Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

By: Ofer Sharone

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Flawed System/Flawed Self

Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

By: Ofer Sharone

Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it’s above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of unemployment has become frighteningly common—and so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work. Flawed System/Flawed Self delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Through in-depth interviews and observations at job-search support organizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how different labor-market institutions give rise to job-search games like Israel’s résumé-based “spec games”—which are focused on presenting one’s skills to fit the job—and the “chemistry games” more common in the United States in which job seekers concentrate on presenting the person behind the résumé. By closely examining the specific day-to-day activities and strategies of searching for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences in this challenging environment and shows how these different structures can lead to very different experiences of unemployment.

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022607367X

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Anti-Heimat Cinema

The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape

By: Ofer Ashkenazi

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Anti-Heimat Cinema

The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape

By: Ofer Ashkenazi

Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers’ contemplations of “Heimat”—a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity—it analyzes their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968. In its emphasis on rootedness and homogeneity Heimat seemed to challenge the validity and significance of Jewish emancipation. Several acculturation-seeking Jewish artists and intellectuals, however, endeavored to conceive a notion of Heimat that would rather substantiate their belonging. This book considers Jewish filmmakers’ contribution to this endeavor. It shows how they devised the landscapes of the German “Homeland” as Jews, namely, as acculturated “outsiders within.” Through appropriation of generic Heimat imagery, the films discussed in the book integrate criticism of national chauvinism into German mainstream culture from World War I to the Cold War. Consequently, these Jewish filmmakers anticipated the anti-Heimat film of the ensuing decades, and functioned as an uncredited inspiration for the critical New German Cinema.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472132016

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9780472132010

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Richard Napier's Medical Practice

By: Ofer Hadass

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Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Richard Napier's Medical Practice

By: Ofer Hadass

The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose burning desire for certain, true knowledge contributed to the contemporary venture of putting existing knowledge to useful ends. Originally trained in theology and ordained as an Anglican priest, Napier later studied astrological medicine and combined astrology, religious thought, and image and ritual magic in his medical work. Ofer Hadass draws on a remarkable archive of Napier’s medical cases and religious writings—including the interviews he claimed to have held with angels—to show how Napier’s seemingly inconsistent approaches were rooted in an inclusive and coherent worldview, combining equal respect for ancient authority and for experientially derived knowledge. Napier’s endeavors exemplify the fruitful relationship between religion and science that offered a well-founded alternative to the rising mechanistic explanation of nature at the time. Carefully researched and compellingly told, Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England is an insightful exploration of one of the most fascinating figures at the intersection of medicine, magic, and theology in early modern England and of the healing methods employed by physicians of the era.

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Penn State Press

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0271081759

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Dead-end Journey

The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Šabac Group

By: Hana Weiner,Dalia Ofer

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Dead-end Journey

The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Šabac Group

By: Hana Weiner,Dalia Ofer

This book tells the story of over 1, 000 Jewish refugees and their unfinished voyage to Palestine.

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0761801995

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Fate's Perfect Justice

By: Ofer Mazar

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Fate's Perfect Justice

By: Ofer Mazar

The story I am about to unfold, my dear reader, is a journey into my chaotic soul..."An intense and moving love story, which describes a forty-year voyage into the soul of a troubled, delicate, breathtaking beauty-a phenomenally intelligent woman who was struck by an excruciating obsession in the form of her high school sweetheart, a talented athlete and musician named Roy, who was banished at a crucial moment from her life by her protective father. "I woke up to a new reality... my life would never be the same again...."As Lisa becomes sober, still devastated by the loss of the love of her life, she takes a new name, creates an alter ego, and enters law school. Battling life, pursuing a career as a successful criminal lawyer, marrying a man she does not love, raising a child born for all the wrong reasons, Lisa keeps the memory of Roy in her heart, dreaming of the day they'll reunite. The years pass and her obsession becomes pathetic even to her; yet she clings to it vehemently.

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1609766555

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Escaping the Holocaust

Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944

By: Dalia Ofer

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Escaping the Holocaust

Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944

By: Dalia Ofer

Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive British immigration policies was partly an undertaking of national rescue and partly a calculated strategy of political brinksmanship. In this compelling analysis, Ofer examines various illegal immigration and rescue efforts organized by the Palestinian Jewish community in both the beginning and latter phases of the war. Making exhaustive use of archival sources, Ofer provides invaluable insight into the struggles of the immigrants, the activists and supporters of the movement, the logistical obstacles, and the political forces working to halt or exploit the flow of refugees.

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Oxford University Press

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0195362551

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From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

By: Gideon Rahat,Ofer Kenig

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From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

By: Gideon Rahat,Ofer Kenig

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics and the relationship between them. It presents a cross-national comparative comparison that covers around 50 years in 26 democracies through the use of more than 20 indicators. It offers the most comprehensive comparative cross-national estimation of the variance in the levels and patterns of party change and political personalization among countries to date, using existing works as well injecting fresh cross-national comparative data. In the case of party change, it offers an analysis that extends beyond the dichotomous debate of party decline versus party adaptation. In the matter of political personalization, the emphasis on variance helps in bridging between the high theoretical expectations and disappointing empirical findings. As for the theoretically sound linkage between the two phenomena, not only is this the first study to comprise a comprehensive cross-national examination, but it also proposes a more nuanced understanding of this relationship. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

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0192535420

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The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society

By: Mary C. Stiner,Ofer Bar-Yosef

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The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society

By: Mary C. Stiner,Ofer Bar-Yosef

This pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of 14 bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel’s Galilee.

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Harvard University Press

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0873655524

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Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures

Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts

By: Ofer Gal

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Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures

Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts

By: Ofer Gal

This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential breakthroughs in the history of celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's (1635-1703) proposal to "compoun[d] the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive motion towards a centrat body" (Newton, The Correspondence li, 297. Henceforth: Correspondence). This is the challenge Hooke presented to Isaac Newton (1642-1727) in a short but intense correspondence in the winter of 1679-80, which set Newton on course for his 1687 Principia, transforming the very concept of "the planetary heavens" in the process (Herivel, 301: De Motu, Version III). 1 It is difficult to overstate the novelty of Hooke 's Programme • The celestial motions, it suggested, those proverbial symbols of stability and immutability, werein fact a process of continuous change: a deflection of the planets from original rectilinear paths by "a centraU attractive power" (Correspondence, li, 313). There was nothing necessary or essential in the shape of planetary orbits. Already known to be "not circular nor concentricall" (ibid. ), Hooke claimed that these apparently closed "curve Line[ s ]" should be understood and calculated as mere effects of rectilinear motions and rectilinear attraction. And as Newton was quick to realize, this also implied that "the planets neither move exactly in ellipse nor revolve twice in the same orbit, so that there are as many orbits to a planet as it has revolutions" (Herivel, 301: De Motu, Version III).

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9401722234

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Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

By: Ofer Bar-Yosef,François R. Valla

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Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

By: Ofer Bar-Yosef,François R. Valla

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

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1789201578

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The Origins of Modern Science

From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

By: Ofer Gal

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The Origins of Modern Science

From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

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Baroque Science

By: Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris

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Baroque Science

By: Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris

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Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures

Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts

By: Ofer Gal

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Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts

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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science

By: Charles T. Wolfe,Ofer Gal

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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science

By: Charles T. Wolfe,Ofer Gal

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 experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented by some of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.

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