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Richard S. Westfall

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35

Publications

2.6K

Citations

23

H-Index

1956

Active since

Affiliations

University of Nevada, Las Vegas(Current)

University of Nevada, Reno

University of Iowa

Iowa State University

Indiana University Bloomington

Richard S. Westfall is an author at University of Nevada, Las Vegas specializing in intellectual history, history of science, and humanities.

Top concepts

Intellectual HistoryHistory Of ScienceHumanitiesLiterary HistoryClassicsSocial SciencesArtsLanguageBehavioral SciencePsychology

Publications per year

1956–2020

35

Publications

35

Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton

Richard S. Westfall · 1980 · 532 citations

Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

Raymond P. Stearns, Richard S. Westfall · The American Historical Review · 1959 · 239 citations

Seventeenth-century England, History Of Science, Historical Scholarship

Foundations of Scientific Method: The Nineteenth Century.

Fely David, Ronald N. Giere, Richard S. Westfall · Biometrics · 1974 · 227 citations

Science Study, History Of Science, Methodological Perspective +3

The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750.

Richard S. Westfall, Larry Stewart · The American Historical Review · 1994 · 199 citations

Decoloniality, Philosophy Of History, Historical Scholarship +18

Newton and the Fudge Factor

Richard S. Westfall · Science · 1973 · 164 citations

Behavioral Sciences, Fudge Factor, Behavioral Decision Making +2

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