Robert S. Westman (History)
rwestman@ucsd.edu

University of California, San Diego
Department of History, 0104
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0104
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Robert Westman specializes in the cultural history of early modern science, especially the Copernican question and occult philosophies of nature. A graduate of the University of Michigan (1971), with a Ph.D.in the History of Science, he taught at the University of California Los Angeles before coming to UCSD in 1988.

Publications
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Scepticism and Celestial Order, University of California Press, forthcoming 2009.

Thinking Impossibilities: The Legacy of Amos Funkenstein. Edited with David Biale. University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2008.

"Copernicus and the Prognosticators: The Bologna Period, 1496-1500," Universitas, no. 5 (December 1993):1-5..

"Two Cultures or One? A Second Look at Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution," Isis, 85 (1994):79-115.

"Premières Lectures," in Les Cahiers de Science & Vie ("Revolutions scientifiques: Nicolas Copernic"), No. 39 (June, 1997): 46-53.