COPERNICUS AND ITALY 2023

Session

Opening lectures

001

28 Sept 2023, 10:05

Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil (Rome)

4. Copernicus and the Problem of Astrology: Some Remarks on the State of the Question (001)

Robert Westman (University of California San Diego)

28/09/2023, 10:05

One of many vexatious problems in Copernican scholarship is the question of Copernicus’s views concerning astrology. Historians have tended to interpret the absence of direct evidence on this matter as evidence that Copernicus either rejected astrology altogether or simply chose to remain silent on the question. In 1990, I associated myself with this majority view in a study of Copernicus’s...