Robert S. Westman
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LOCATION: La Jolla, CA, United States
Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego, at La Jolla. Author of Johannes Kepler's Adoption of the Copernican Hypothesis and others.
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Nicolaus Copernicus Polish astronomer who proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions are to be referred; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow long-term changes in the…
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