Department of History
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0104
La Jolla, California 92093-0104

Vita

Cultural history of early modern science. The Copernican problem, astrology, Renaissance philosophies of nature. Ph.D., University of Michigan (1971). Professor Westman taught at the University of California Los Angeles, 1969-88.

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 Bale. 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.

Courses Taught

• HISC 106. The Scientific Revolution.
• HISC 166/266. The Galileo Affair.
• HIGR 236A-B. Research Seminar: History of Science.
• HIGR 238. Introduction to Science Studies.
• HIGR 241. Advanced Approaches to Science Studies.

Research

• History of Science