Rivka Feldhay
Rivka Feldhay (born September 3, 1947 ) is an Israeli science historian .
Life
She studied history and English language and literature at Haifa University . She earned an MA in the history of science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 and received her PhD in the history of science in 1986. From 1990 she was Senior Lecturer and since 1997 she has been Associate Professor at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University . She is Research Director at the Minerva Humanities Center. She was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Her main research interests are Galileo Galilei and scientists of the Jesuit order in the baroque period .
She is active in the field of German-Israeli scientific cooperation and was supposed to take part in the bilateral government talks in Berlin in December 2012, but was unloaded by the head of the National Security Council of Israel, Yaakov Amidror .
Feldhay is married and has two children.
Fonts (selection)
- Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-34468-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Netanyahu's paranoia: Who only knows enemies. , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 7, 2012, accessed December 8, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feldhay, Rivka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1947 |