Research Fields
- History of early modern science
- History of optics
- Intellectual history
- Johannes Kepler
About
Prof. Raz Chen-Morris is an historian of early modern science. He studied at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Chen-Morris is currently the academic director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.
Selected Publications
Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013
Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt.” Journal of the History of Ideas, 71:2, 2010, pp. 191-218
Raz Chen-Morris, "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe". Nuncius 35 (2020) 387–412.
Raz Chen-Morris, “The Fall of Icarus and Kepler’s Observations- Forbidden Knowledge, Curiosity and the Birth of New Science in the Seventeeth Century”. History 31-32 (2014) 105-138.
רז חן-מוריס, "נפילתו של איקרוס ותצפיותיו של קפלר -ידע אסור, סקרנות ולידתו של המדע החדש במאה השבע עשרה", היסטוריה 31-32 (תשע"ד), עמ' 105-138
Selected Awards
2006-2009-The Australian Research Council–supported project - The Imperfection of the Universe (DP0664046)
The Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas for 2010
2010-2011-Excellent lecturer award for distinguished teaching achievements, Bar Ilan University
2020-2023-ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 312/20): Geometry and the Making of Geometrical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Teaching
Bachelor's degree courses
Introduction to the history of early modern Europe
An intellectual history of science (part A): from Copernicus to Enlightenment
An intellectual history of science (part B): from Newton to Freud
Continuity and Change in Scientific Thought from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th Century
HISTORIOGRAPHIC TEXTS - GREAT HISTORIC BOOKS
Places of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe
Astrology and Astronomy in the Renaissance
Science and Religion in the 17th Century
Humanism, Art and Science in the Renaissance
Sovereignty and Knowledge in the Age of Baroque
Master's degree courses
The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century - A Global Perspective
The Sense of Sight from the Age of Cathedrals to the Baroque