Home›Sources›The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial OrderSourcesThe Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial OrderCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-copernican-question-prognostication-skepticism-and-celestial-order.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-copernican-question-prognostication-skepticism-and-celestial-orderCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-copernican-question-prognostication, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-copernican-question-prognostication-skepticism-and-celestial-order}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXRobert Westman's The Copernican Question, published by the University of California Press in 2011, is a major work of modern scholarship on the Copernican revolution. Its strength is that it is a large, deeply researched revisionist history, explicitly critical of the earlier Yates thesis about hermetic influence. Its limit is the ordinary one for any single scholarly synthesis: it represents Westman's own reading of a contested historical question, argued against named rival positions rather than settling them beyond dispute.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: a large, deeply researched revisionist history from a major university press, explicitly critical of an earlier thesis and argued against named rival positions rather than settling them beyond dispute.NotesWell-attestedMajor revisionist treatment of the period; critical of the Yates thesis.CitationAuthorWell-attestedRobert S. WestmanPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of California PressPublication YearWell-attested2011Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.Well-attested7SourcesThe Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial OrderGeneral References1Historical FiguresGiordano BrunoComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year