Robert Westman
(University of California San Diego)
9/28/23, 10:05 AM
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...
