Mordechai Feingold
Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities
Profile
Mordechai Feingold is an intellectual and institutional historian of science, from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. His research focuses on how the rise of modern science has transformed Western culture from a humanistic, religious, and unified culture during the sixteenth century into a scientific, technological, secular, and fragmented one by the nineteenth century.
Feingold has authored four monographs, including Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization (Princeton University Press, 2013), written with Jed Buchwald; The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004); and The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1984). He has edited ten volumes on the history of science and related subjects and written dozens of articles.
Prior to joining the Caltech faculty in 2002, Feingold was an assistant professor at Boston University from 1984 to 1988 before joining the faculty of Virginia Tech. He was a junior fellow at Harvard University from 1981 to 1984, a visiting professor at the History of Science Society in 1992–1993, and a visiting
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- Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, 2001–02
- Fellow, International Academy of History and Philosophy of Science, 2011–present
- President, International Commission for the History of Universities, 2005–2020