Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by author "Gal, Ofer"
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The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view.
Gal, Ofer; Boantza, VictorPublished 2011-01-01Long 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 existence’. We demonstrate that ...Open AccessArticle -
Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt
Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, RazPublished 2010-04-01In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical ...Open AccessArticle -
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science
Gal, Ofer; Wolfe, Charles T.Published 2010-01-01It 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 ...Open AccessBook -
Constructivism for Philosophers (Be it a Remark on Realism)
Gal, OferPublished 2003-01-01Bereft of the illusion of an epistemic vantage point external to science, what should be our commitment towards the categories, concepts and terms of that very science? Should we, despaired of the possibility to found these ...Open AccessArticle -
Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, RazPublished 2010-01-01On receiving news of Galileo’s observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the rugged face of the moon through his newly invented perspicillum, Kepler in great excitement exclaimed: Therefore let Galileo take his ...Open AccessBook chapter
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