[ { "id": "authors:4cjkm-gz819", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "4cjkm-gz819", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20230512-807784000.6", "type": "article", "title": "Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Isaac Newton's credentials as a staunch Whig have been taken for granted at least since 1848 when Macaulay hailed him as 'the glory of the Whig party'.\u00b9 Newton's defiant stance during the Alban Francis affair, when he defended liberty and Protestantism against the dispensing power of James II\u2014a stand that earned him a place in the Cambridge delegation summoned to appear before Lord Chancellor George Jeffreys\u2014purportedly showed him to be a resolute opponent of the monarch's policies long before the Revolution of 1688. Newton, in fact, is perceived not only as a veritable Whig delegate to the Convention Parliament, but one closely associated with the radical wing of that party.\u00b2 Hitherto, however, the evidentiary basis for such seemingly sterling credentials have barely been scrutinized. And though such scrutiny is not possible in a brief note, it is possible to complicate the received view by suggesting that Newton's voting record during the 1689 parliament sits at odds with the image of a resolute Whig.", "doi": "10.1093/notesj/gjad025", "issn": "0029-3970", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Notes and Queries", "publication_date": "2023-05-16" }, { "id": "authors:rt4q3-pq173", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "rt4q3-pq173", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20221109-552977300.21", "type": "article", "title": "Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) [Book Review]", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Kirsten Macfarlane is the first scholar to attempt an intellectual biography of Hugh Broughton, one of the most proficient linguists and biblical scholars in England during the three decades prior to his death in 1612, and certainly the most irascible. The book exhibits scholarly ambition and its own form of polemic: all previous scholars (myself included), Macfarlane contends, have gone astray in their interpretation of Broughton, in following, and further sullying, a construal fashioned by John Lightfoot, editor of Broughton's works and his first biographer, which amounted to a 'historical revision with its corollaries of erasure and simplification', especially regarding Broughton's confessional ambiguity and its bearings on his polemics (2). This risks misrepresenting previous scholarship and underplaying the book's indebtedness to it.\n\nThe book elucidates, in six chapters, key elements of Broughton's learned endeavours: scripture chronology, Bible translation, biblical genealogies, anti-Jewish polemics, the controversy over Christ's descent into hell, and Broughton's views about a New Testament translation. There is much of value here, both in terms of the scholarly contexts of each topic and Macfarlane's presentation of Broughton's own contribution. Nevertheless, Macfarlane's over-riding objectives and the conceptual framework she chooses to build on are problematic.", "doi": "10.1093/res/hgac073", "issn": "0034-6551", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Review of English Studies", "publication_date": "2022-10-29", "pages": "Art. No. hgac073" }, { "id": "authors:4gfta-jwz95", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "4gfta-jwz95", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210728-163929200", "type": "article", "title": "How Important Was Religion to Newton's \"Secular\" Studies?", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "The three books discussed in this symposium, Scott Mandelbrote writes, \"rest heavily\" on the representation of Newton's manuscripts \"through the medium of the international digital Newton Project.\" While sharing Mandelbrote's high regard for the Project \u2013 of which I'm proud to have been, together with Harvey Shoolman, a founding father \u2013 the research that led to Newton and the Origin of Civilization relied primarily on the manuscripts themselves, as well as on the semi-legible Chadwyck-Healey microfilms. Fully cognizant of the confused state of the manuscripts, we sought to establish order by carefully threshing through the chaotic nachlass to tease out an accurate progression of Newton's ideas regarding chronology within the context of his other studies, both scientific and religious. Regrettably, subsequent scholars, favoring alternative interpretations, have generally bypassed our reconstruction instead of bringing evidence to prove it wrong. I shall focus on specific examples in order to raise more sweeping issues pertaining to contemporary Newtonian research.", "doi": "10.1163/15733823-02620013", "issn": "1383-7427", "publisher": "Brill Academic Publishers", "publication": "Early Science and Medicine", "publication_date": "2021-06", "series_number": "2", "volume": "26", "issue": "2", "pages": "181-190" }, { "id": "authors:aasy1-xpn86", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "aasy1-xpn86", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201216-142400840", "type": "article", "title": "Winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize for 2019", "author": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "orcid": "0009-0002-9957-3783", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "The editors are pleased to congratulate Henry-James Meiring, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, who is the winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize 2019 for his paper titled 'Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind' which appears in this issue. \n\nAs in previous years, submissions to the 2019 competition were of a high standard, and we'd like to thank the Editorial Board for thoroughly assessing each essay.", "doi": "10.1080/00033790.2020.1853388", "issn": "0003-3790", "publisher": "Taylor & Francis", "publication": "Annals of Science", "publication_date": "2020-12-07", "series_number": "4", "volume": "77", "issue": "4", "pages": "555-555" }, { "id": "authors:h3snz-j8c28", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "h3snz-j8c28", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200908-074205216", "type": "article", "title": "A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687)", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" }, { "family_name": "Svoren\u010d\u00edk", "given_name": "Andrej", "clpid": "Svoren\u010d\u00edk-A" } ], "abstract": "When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility of the Principia would have militated against a sizeable edition. Our preliminary census more than doubles the number of identified copies, to 387\u2014suggesting a much larger print run than commonly assumed \u2013 as well as encourages us to believe that there existed a wider, and competent, readership of the Principia from the start. The long-standing assumption regarding the recondite nature of Newton's science as presented in the Principia, together with claims concerning the scarcity of the book, brought many scholars to assume that Newton's masterpiece exerted little influence before the 1730s. The new empirical evidence presented in our census enables a reassessment of the early diffusion of the Principia in Europe which, in turn, would necessitate a major refinement of our understanding of the contribution of Newtonianism to Enlightenment science.", "doi": "10.1080/00033790.2020.1808700", "issn": "0003-3790", "publisher": "Taylor & Francis", "publication": "Annals of Science", "publication_date": "2020-09-02", "series_number": "3", "volume": "77", "issue": "3", "pages": "253-348" }, { "id": "authors:yemra-4ha45", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "yemra-4ha45", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210204-065938432", "type": "article", "title": "An anatomy of a Religio-Scientific Polemic: the Wilkins-Ross Controversy Revisited", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "The Wilkins-Ross controversy has long been recognized as crucial for the diffusion of Copernicanism in England, as well as for the waning of Biblicism as an imposing authority in scientific matters. However, since scholars to date have found it sufficient to harvest the highpoints of the debate, certain salient features of the affair remain unexplored. This article will seek to throw these features into sharp relief through an exhaustive scrutiny of the religious part of the dispute. This should not only shed light on the intricacies of religio-scientific polemic during the first half of the seventeenth century, but reveal a hitherto unrecognized guiding principle behind Wilkins's ideological and rhetorical strategies. And in view of the fact that the Discovery and the Discourse were the first, and only, apologias for Copernicanism to be published in England, it is clear that Wilkins's shrewd stratagem rendered unnecessary any additional defense of the new astronomy.", "issn": "1971-6052", "publisher": "Leo S. Olschki Publisher", "publication": "Galil\u00e6ana: Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science", "publication_date": "2020", "volume": "17", "pages": "51-90" }, { "id": "authors:zk8et-jvh22", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "zk8et-jvh22", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190729-111530364", "type": "article", "title": "Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Long ago, George Sarton set down criteria for reviewers. In addition to insisting on the need to compose 'faithful' reviews, he cautioned against four types of unfit reviewers: the 'egoist', the 'obscure' reviewer, the one who is noncommittal, and the pedantic critic. Unfortunately, Cohen's review comes short on several counts. Cohen writes that he intends to examine what is 'new' in the three books he reviews, and whether the results therein contained are 'worth learning' (p. 687). Cohen denies being given to 'misplaced hero worship', insisting that his sole aim is to assess whether 'scholarly novelty' (p. 693) has been attained. Nevertheless, given his repeated rebuke of the authors under review for 'failing to refer back to [Richard] Westfall's work' on Newton \u2013 now nearly half a century old \u2013 it seems that he grounded his critique principally on Westfall's interpretation.", "doi": "10.1017/S0007087419000426", "issn": "0007-0874", "publisher": "Cambridge University Press", "publication": "British Journal for the History of Science", "publication_date": "2019-06", "series_number": "S2", "volume": "52", "issue": "S2", "pages": "353-357" }, { "id": "authors:aeycd-5p569", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "aeycd-5p569", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190919-085735803", "type": "article", "title": "The other John Hart", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "On 7 June 1574 a John Hart, the son of William Hart, received a doctorate in both civil and canon law at the University of Padua. At the ceremony\u2014performed in the residence of the Count Palatine Marco Mantova Benavides\u2014Hart was examined and promoted to the degree, after taking the required oath of Catholic faith. Witnesses to the ceremony included Sir Philip Sidney; Ralph Hopton, the son of Sir Owen Hopton, lieutenant of the London Tower and Sidney's companion; Griffin Maddox, Sidney's amanuensis; James Randolph, consiliarius and electionarius of the English nation, 1576\u201378; Richard Walker, a medical student; and Nicholas Wendon, a doctor of civil and canon law himself, and still archdeacon of Suffolk (notwithstanding his long-known Catholic sympathies, and his being an absentee to boot). Elsewhere I have identified this John Hart with the future missionary priest, with whom in 1582 John Rainolds held a celebrated conference in the London Tower. I grounded my conjecture on the facts that the name of Hart's father was indeed William and that Wendon and Hart had travelled together from the English College in Douay toward Rome, evidently via Padua. Nonetheless, doubt lingers. To the best of my knowledge, Hart never acknowledged owning a legal degree\u2014nor did anyone else credit him with one. Further to note, an exact contemporary with the same name, titled 'doctor', resided in Rome in the late 1570 s, so that it may well have been this John Hart who had been awarded the Padua degree. While I am unable to fully resolve the matter, I hope that the presentation of the precious few surviving details concerning the 'other' John Hart might encourage further research into the career of this elusive recusant\u2014who, I shall also suggest, may have ultimately reconciled himself to the Church of England.", "doi": "10.1093/notesj/gjy194", "issn": "0029-3970", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Notes and Queries", "publication_date": "2019-03", "series_number": "1", "volume": "66", "issue": "1", "pages": "59-63" }, { "id": "authors:5yhwb-crb91", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "5yhwb-crb91", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181203-093551422", "type": "article", "title": "The religion of the young Isaac Newton", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Half a century ago, Frank Manuel published an original and proactive 'portrait' of Isaac Newton. Seeking to better comprehend the elusive mind-set of the great man, Manuel availed himself of psychoanalytics tools as he conjured the possibility of a profound emotional bond between Newton and God. Manuel was unable to determine 'the precise origins' of Newton's anti-Trinitariansim. What he did locate, however, was a 'religious dedication' which, Manuel was convinced, permeated all of Newton's works. Three years later, after consulting the Yahuda manuscripts in Jerusalem, Manual found confirmation of his previous intuitive assessment: Newton conceived himself to be the elected 'priest-scientist' of his generation, from whom 'nothing had been withheld.' Equally to the point, Newton's 'scrutiny of nature' \u2013 in Manuel's exegesis \u2013 'was directed almost exclusively not to the increase of sensate pleasure or comfort', but to the knowledge of God. Such a broad-stroked sketch of Newton's religiosity assumed a timeless Newton, consistent and unwavering throughout the eight and a half decades of his life. Consumed from the start by a psychic quest for his father, so the argument persisted, Newton and his research 'were animated by one overwhelming desire, to know God's will through His works in the world.'", "doi": "10.1080/00033790.2018.1549686", "issn": "0003-3790", "publisher": "Taylor & Francis", "publication": "Annals of Science", "publication_date": "2018-11-27", "series_number": "2", "volume": "76", "issue": "2", "pages": "210-218" }, { "id": "authors:jqkpg-1cr36", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "jqkpg-1cr36", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170720-083525589", "type": "article", "title": "What's in a Date? Alberico Gentili and the Genesis of De legationibus libri tres", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "It may not be all that much of an exaggeration to suggest that the birth of modern international law was expedited by a happenstance. In November 1583 Francis Throckmorton was arrested on suspicion of participating in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and to place on the throne in her stead the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots\u2014a stratagem to be implemented by an invasion of a mercenary army led by the Duke of Guise. The Spanish ambassador to England, Bernardino de Mendoza, was intimately involved, too, which raised the delicate matter of ambassadorial privileges. Twelve years earlier, a panel of five English civil lawyers had determined in the analogous case of the Scottish ambassador to England, John Lesley, Bishop of Ross\u2014who had been implicated in the Ridolfi Plot\u2014that a scheming legate forfeited his...", "doi": "10.1093/notesj/gjx009", "issn": "0029-3970", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Notes and Queries", "publication_date": "2017-06", "series_number": "2", "volume": "64", "issue": "2", "pages": "312-317" }, { "id": "authors:qvmkr-zq855", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "qvmkr-zq855", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170417-135943360", "type": "article", "title": "Projectors and learned projects in early modern England", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Commenting in 1692 on the \"Projecting Humour that now reigns\" in England, Daniel Defoe nicknamed the period the \"Projecting Age.\" He dated its start to c. 1680, even as he conceded that \"it had indeed something of life in the time of the late Civil War\" as well. Defoe was wrong. Decades earlier both Elizabethan and Jacobean commentators had inveighed against the rampant passion for schemes, a perception increasingly documented by scholars. For the most part, however, the appraisal of early modern projects has been confined to the domain of economic and social history. Monopolies, inventions, plans to ameliorate the condition of the poor and infirm, and schemes guaranteeing the enrichment of the nation, have drawn the attention of historians; only sporadic attention has been paid to the numerous scholarly projects that also proliferated during the same period. My intention here is not to be exhaustive, but to offer a snapshot of the large number of proposals that sought to establish new institutions of higher learning, usually through substantial outlays of public capital.", "doi": "10.1080/0268117X.2016.1249935", "issn": "0268-117X", "publisher": "Taylor & Francis", "publication": "Seventeenth Century", "publication_date": "2017-03", "series_number": "1", "volume": "32", "issue": "1", "pages": "63-79" }, { "id": "authors:ydzrn-tk570", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "ydzrn-tk570", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170504-114553892", "type": "article", "title": "Who Translated the Turkish Alcoran (1649)? In Defence of an Alternative View", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "In the 2014 issue of this Journal, Noel Malcolm challenged my interpretation of The Alcoran of Mahomet, \u2026 newly Englished (1649). My intention here is to respond to his criticism and state more forcefully my reasons for considering an alternative to his interpretation of the evidence.", "issn": "0075-4390", "publisher": "Warburg Institute", "publication": "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes", "publication_date": "2016-12-01", "volume": "79", "pages": "307-316" }, { "id": "authors:rgemr-g4z70", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "rgemr-g4z70", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160317-100410171", "type": "article", "title": "\"Experimental Philosophy\": Invention and Rebirth of a Seventeenth-Century Concept", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "This essay offers a more dynamic, and historically grounded, context to explain how and why various individuals and groups in England adopted the term \"experimental philosophy.\" Before the foundation of the Royal Society, I contend, the term had been utilized promiscuously, its modern signification conspicuously absent. Building on this insight, I examine the seemingly deliberate decision by future members of the Royal Society to avoid using the term \u2013 and the subsequent shift in their attitude c. 1660. My aim is to demonstrate that while only in England did the fixed conceptual and polemical term \"experimental philosophy\" become popularized and its (supposed) practice institutionalized, English natural philosophers did not view themselves as engaged in a practice that was fundamentally different than that pursued by their counterparts on the Continent.", "doi": "10.1163/15733823-00211P01", "issn": "1383-7427", "publisher": "Brill Academic Publishers", "publication": "Early Science and Medicine", "publication_date": "2016", "series_number": "1", "volume": "21", "issue": "1", "pages": "1-28" }, { "id": "authors:hyry1-es633", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "hyry1-es633", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160211-085224238", "type": "article", "title": "John Hopkinson of Grub Street: An Elizabethan Orientalist", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "Scholars have puzzled over the identity of a certain Hopkinson, a London-based teacher of the oriental languages during Elizabeth's reign. James Whitelocke, future judge of the King's Bench, appears to have been the only one to mention him. Prior to entering Oxford in June 1588, Whitelocke recalled in 1609, he had improved his knowledge of Hebrew\u2014which he had begun studying at Merchant Taylors' School under Richard Mulcaster\u2014with \na reader of the Hebrew tong at London that was reputed the famosest in that language about the towne. His name was Hopkinson, he dwelt in Grub Street, an obscure and simple man for worldly affayres, but expert in all the lefthand tongs, as Hebrew, Chaldean, Syrian, Arabian, and writ them verye fair: he had at that time great lerned men that consulted him in those languages, and especially dr. Andrews that is now bishop of Chichester.", "doi": "10.1093/notesj/gjv145", "issn": "0029-3970", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Notes and Queries", "publication_date": "2015-12", "series_number": "4", "volume": "62", "issue": "4", "pages": "545-549" }, { "id": "authors:yfqyz-ptv69", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "yfqyz-ptv69", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20151029-144251903", "type": "article", "title": "A Rake's Progress: William Whiston Reads Josephus", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "William Whiston celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday on Monday, 9\nDecember 1734. As if to solemnize the occasion, he entered his study and began translating the works of Josephus. The decision to undertake the translation was far from spontaneous. As early as 16 March 1733 Whiston had advertised the imminent publication of two dissertations on the Jewish historian, intended to serve as \"preparatory to a New Version of Josephus in English.\" Still, the date is suggestive for elucidating the motivation of the translation. In the previous month Whiston's youngest son, John, had been made free of the Merchant's Taylor Company, having completed his apprenticeship with the bookseller Fletcher Gyles.\nSetting up shop in Fleet Street, John would become William's sole publisher, and\nthe translation, I submit, was intended to secure an immediate best seller\u2014which\nwould both ensure the future well-being of John's business and alleviate William's\nchronic financial difficulties.", "issn": "0013-2586", "publisher": "Johns Hopkins University Press", "publication": "Eighteenth-Century Studies", "publication_date": "2015-09", "series_number": "1", "volume": "49", "issue": "1", "pages": "17-30" }, { "id": "authors:25d7y-m8822", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "25d7y-m8822", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140620-074111116", "type": "article", "title": "\"And Knowledge Shall Be Increased\": Millenarianism and the Advancement of Learning Revisited", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "In the early years of the seventeenth century, Francis Bacon (1561\u20131626) introduced an\ningenious and daring exegesis into his apologia for secular learning. Man fell, he argued\nin Valerius Terminus, his first philosophical essay, not for seeking the \"pure light of\nnatural knowledge,\" but for presuming \"to attain to that part of moral knowledge which\ndefineth of good and evil, whereby to dispute God's commandments and not to depend\nupon the revelation of his will.\" Consequently, far from proscribing innocent inquiries into\nnature, God actually \"framed the mind of man as a glass capable of the image of the\nuniversal world, joying to receive the signature thereof as the eye is of light \u2026 And\nalthough the highest generality of motion or summary law of nature God should still\nreserve within his own curtain, yet many and noble are the inferior and secondary\noperations which are within man's sounding.\" Indeed, since God authored all knowledge,\nits dissemination and thriving is guaranteed \"not only by a general providence but by a\nspecial prophecy,\" expressly \"appointed to this autumn of the world.\" Bacon turned to\nDaniel 12:4, where, \"speaking of the latter times it is said, Many shall pass to and fro, and\nscience shall be increased; as if the opening of the world by navigation and commerce\nand the further discovery of knowledge should meet in one time or age.\"", "doi": "10.1080/0268117X.2013.846230", "issn": "0268-117X", "publisher": "Taylor & Francis", "publication": "Seventeenth Century", "publication_date": "2014-05-13", "series_number": "4", "volume": "28", "issue": "4", "pages": "363-393" }, { "id": "authors:xj5qm-39q05", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "xj5qm-39q05", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140529-104121282", "type": "article", "title": "Science Biography: A voyage round Newton", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "The last major private repository of manuscripts and correspondence by Isaac Newton and his circle was held in the extraordinary library at Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, UK, seat of the earls of Macclesfield. In the late 1970s, I sought access to the documents while pursuing a doctorate at the University of Oxford. I was politely, but firmly, refused. My mentor, Hugh Trevor-Roper, pleaded with the earl, who countered that the last time an Oxonian had entered the library, a book had gone missing. Trevor-Roper apologized on the university's behalf, and asked when the incident had occurred. \"In 1747,\" came the curt reply.", "doi": "10.1038/509030a", "issn": "0028-0836", "publisher": "Nature Publishing Group", "publication": "Nature", "publication_date": "2014-05-01", "series_number": "7498", "volume": "509", "issue": "7498", "pages": "30-31" }, { "id": "authors:3rr0t-n9g02", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "3rr0t-n9g02", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130319-115356481", "type": "article", "title": "\"The Turkish Alcoran\": New Light on the 1649 English Translation of the Koran", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "The first translation of the Koran into English appeared in 1649, the first year of the Commonwealth. The political and religious significance of the publication was then and remains contested. In this essay, Mordechai Feingold\ntraces the history of the translation's appearance, describing the personages and motivations involved with the publication and its reception. Arguing that Thomas Ross is the likeliest editor, he challenges an alternative identification of those responsible for the translation and paratexts. Feingold surveys the critical reception of the edition, which appears to have been partisan rather than principled, and concludes with a description of rival editions proposed by contemporary Arabists.", "doi": "10.1525/hlq.2012.75.4.475", "issn": "0018-7895", "publisher": "University of California Press", "publication": "Huntington Library Quarterly", "publication_date": "2012-12", "series_number": "4", "volume": "75", "issue": "4", "pages": "475-501" }, { "id": "authors:jymm5-qsz69", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "jymm5-qsz69", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130301-092008505", "type": "article", "title": "Isaac Casaubon, Hebraist", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "A review essay of Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's remarkable 'I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue'. The essay seeks to pay homage to their exemplary contribution to our understanding of Early Modern Christian Hebraism \u2013 and of erudition more generally \u2013 by expanding on their pioneering study through reflection on three themes: Casaubon's early Hebrew studies; the motivation and scope of his learning; and his posthumous reputation as a Hebraist.", "doi": "10.1007/s12138-012-0309-0", "issn": "1073-0508", "publisher": "Springer Verlag", "publication": "International Journal of the Classical Tradition", "publication_date": "2012-06", "series_number": "2", "volume": "19", "issue": "2", "pages": "63-81" }, { "id": "authors:4698x-h2d67", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "4698x-h2d67", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110520-094026754", "type": "article", "title": "Untitled Reply", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "n/a", "doi": "10.1086/658663", "issn": "0021-1753", "publisher": "University of Chicago Press", "publication": "Isis", "publication_date": "2011-03", "series_number": "1", "volume": "102", "issue": "1", "pages": "135-136" }, { "id": "authors:1ttt3-2hc71", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "1ttt3-2hc71", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20100607-142955637", "type": "article", "title": "The War on Newton", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "No abstract.", "doi": "10.1086/652697", "issn": "0021-1753", "publisher": "University of Chicago Press", "publication": "Isis", "publication_date": "2010-03", "series_number": "1", "volume": "101", "issue": "1", "pages": "175-186" }, { "id": "authors:qc3yx-9mf06", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "qc3yx-9mf06", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20100628-111622279", "type": "book_section", "title": "The Accademia del Cimento and the Royal Society", "book_title": "The Accademia del cimento and its European context", "author": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Beretta", "given_name": "Marco", "clpid": "Beretta-A" }, { "family_name": "Clericuzio", "given_name": "Antonio", "clpid": "Clericuzio-A" }, { "family_name": "Principe", "given_name": "Lawrence M.", "clpid": "Principe-L-M" } ], "abstract": "No abstract.", "isbn": "978-0-88135-387-7", "publisher": "Science History Publications", "publication_date": "2009", "pages": "229-242" } ]