Faculty Leader - Dr. Mordechai Feingold

Mordechai Feingold is a Professor of History at Caltech specializing in the History of Science, particularly 16th-19th century Europe. Professor Feingold has focused his research on the way in which the rise of "modern science" has transformed western culture from a humanistic, religious, and unified culture circa 1500 into a scientific/technological, secular, and fragmented culture by the turn of the 20th century.   He has shown how the emergence of a specialized domain of science profoundly affected traditional bastions of knowledge and learning thus contributing to the fragmentation of the shared culture that formerly dominated Europe for centuries.

His books include The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture, and The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640.  He has also edited or co-edited Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period, The New Science and Jesuit Science: Seventeenth Century Perspectives, and Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. 

During this spectacular voyage through Berlin, Dresden and Prague we will not miss the “must-sees” -  Berlin’s 20th and 21st-century architecture, The Green Vault, Worlitz Gardens, the Old Masters at The Zwinger - but will also be focusing in on the world of Science – the Meissen porcelain factory, the Mathematics-Physics Salon, the Einstein Tower, Berlin’s Natural History Museum, the transparent Volkswagen factory, the Astronomical Tower of The Clementium and the special 300 Years of Science Exhibition at the Martin Gropius-Bau. 

We truly hope you can join us on this marvelous program.