List of Publications
Books
R. Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?
Cambridge University Press 1995 (303 pp.) [reprint 1999] [E-book – 2010]
R. Feldhay, How did Galileo become a cultural Hero, and Why? (Hebrew, Van
Leer,/Hakibbutz Hameuhad (in Hebrew. Last stages of preparation)
R. Feldhay, The Jesuits: Transmitters of Galileo's Science (last stages of
preparation)
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, 1989, 302 pp.
E. Etkes & R. Feldhay (eds.with introduction ), Education and History: Cultural and
Political Contexts, , The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History: Jerusalem 1998
(in Hebrew)
R. Feldhay & J. Lerner (eds. with introduction and conclusion), Russians in Israel,
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute/Hakkibutz Hameuchad, (in Hebrew.in press)
R. Feldhay, J. Renn, P. Damerow (eds. with introduction), Jesuit Mechanics and
Preclassical Mechanics: Themes, Methods, Constraints (Last stages of preparation)
J. Rajep, R. Feldhay (eds.), Before Copernicus (last stages of preparation)
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 (in Hebrew)
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
R. Feldhay, “Copernicus, Galileo and the Inquisition”, Essay Review on Pierre-Noel
Mayaud, S.J., La Condamnation 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 Wonderful Machines: The Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge
by Jesuits” Science and Education, Volume 15, Numbers 2-4, March 2006, pp. 151172
R. Feldhay, “Authority, Political Theology, and the Politics of Knowledge in the
Transition from Medieval to Early Modern Catholicism”, Social Research, Vol 73,
No 4: Winter 2006, pp. 1065-1092
R. Feldhay, “Thomas’s Epistemology of Faith”, Science in Context, 20(3) 2007, pp.
401-421
R. Feldhay, "The Jesuits: Transmitters of the 'New Science'. Galileana (in press)
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. 139163, 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, “Recent Narratives of Galileo and the Church or: The Three Dogmas of
the Counter-Reformation”, in J. Renn (ed.), Galileo in Context, Cambridge
University Press 2001, pp. 219-239 (repr. from Science in Context 2000, 13: 4, pp.
489-509)
R. Feldhay, “Religion”, in K. Park and L. Daston (eds.), The Cambridge History of
Science, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press 2006, pp. 727-755
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, “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 Zuerich, Hochschuleverlag AG an der ETH Zuerich 2002, pp.
223-242
R. Feldhay & D. Kauz, “Knowledge, Religion and State: Authorities, Heresies and
Hierarchiesin Modernity”, in Helga Novotni et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch 2001 des
Collegium Helveticum der ETH Zuerich, Hochschuleverlag AG an der ETH Zuerich
2002, pp. 293-313
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, pp.
R. Feldhay, "Knowledge and Belief in Renaissance Historiography", in: The Past and
Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb, edited by
A. Horowitz, O. Limor, R. Ben-Shalom, A. Bar-Levav, The Open University of
Israel, Raanana 2006, pp. 117-134 (in Hebrew).
R. Feldhay “The Betrayal of Intellectuals” in H. Herzog & K. Lahad (eds.),
Knowledge and Silence: On Mechanisms of Denial and Repression in Israeli
Society, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute/ Hakkiutz Hameuchad 2006, pp. 162-168
(in Hebrew)
.
R. Feldhay, “The Division of Scientific Discourse from Religion: A Short History of a
Position in the Cultural Field”, in A. Ravitzky (ed.), Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Between
Conservatism and Radicalism. Reflections on His Philosophy. The Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute/Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2007, pp. 181-190 (in Hebrew)
R. Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: An Inevitable Conflict? Towards a Cultural
History of Science, in J. Mali (ed.) Zmanim Hadashim, The Open University in
Israel, Raanana 2008, 277-297 (in Hebrew)
R. Feldhay, "Authority and Scientific Knowledge in the Transition from the Middle
Ages to Early Modernity", in A. Volmann and Y. Schwartz (eds.), In Memory of
Marcel Dubois (In press)
R. Feldhay, "The Concept of Authority in the Age of Confessionalism", in E. Etkes et
al. (eds.), Education and Religion: Authority and Autonomy, Scholion: Magnes,
Hebrew University 2011, pp. 46-56
R. Feldhay, "Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper as a Literary Text: A Form of NonConformity", in A. Eusterschule and H. Hufnagel (eds.), Turning Traditions Upside
Down. Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment, Budapest: Central European
University Press: Budapest (in press)
R. Feldhay, "A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited", in G.
Lissauer (ed.), Concepts and the Social Order, Budapest: Central European University Press
(In press)
R. Feldhay, "Science in Small and Big Countries" in M. Hagner (ed.), Universitaet,
Nach Feierabend: Zuercher Jahrbuch fuer Wissensgeschichte 6 (2010), pp. 181-191
M. Elazar & Feldhay, "Honoré Fabri S. J. and Galileo's Law of Fall: What Kind of
Controversy?", forthcoming in Marcelo Dascal & Adelino Cattani (eds.),
Controversies within the Scientific Revolution, John Benjamins, Controversies Book
Series. (in press)
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
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 (2005)
R. Feldhay, Essay Review on D. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery
in Early Modern Europe, in Zion, 2005, pp. 127-130 (in Hebrew)
R. Feldhay, Galileo’s Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between
Galileo and the Church by W. Rowland, in Isis, volume 97 (2006), pp. 356–358
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
R. Feldhay, "Der Fall Galilei: Der damalige Konflikt zwischen Glauben und Wissen
aus heutiger Sicht", in Sterne und Weltraum, 1 (2009), pp. 84-94 [repr. with
modifications 2010]
R. Feldhay, "To Look, To See, To Understand", Odessea (2009), pp. 22-30