"Westman's profound understanding of hissubject informs every page of this magisterial book. The Copernican Question provides a new road map to one of the central episodes in the history of science,
Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and
This volume containsstate-of-the-art essays, offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution, by a group of leading scholars actively engaged in the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur