![]() The book had its origin in notes for a science course at Harvard based on a historical approach. It was one of Kuhn’s first publications in the history of science previously he had published six papers in this field, on seventeenth-century chemistry and on the Carnot cycle. In 2003 the Harvard University Press edition was in its 24th printing, and this excludes the Vintage Book edition. The Copernican Revolution, Kuhn’s first book, is one of the best selling books ever written on the history of science. The terms "paradigm" and "normal science" do not appear in it the book is more a historical than a philosophical work. The reader who expects to find in the Copernican Revolution some contours of Kuhn's renowned philosophy will be disappointed. He describes scientists working during periods of non-revolutionary ("normal") science as solvers of a kind of puzzles that are not unlike jigsaw or crossword puzzles. In it Kuhn introduces the concept of paradigm shift, a sudden change in outlook of members of a science community that occurs during a revolutionary change in their field. ![]() Kuhn is the author of the epoch-making Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a book that pioneers a novel philosophical/sociological view on science and its practitioners. ![]() 1.6 Chapter 6: The Assimilation of Copernican Astronomy.1.4 Chapter 4: Recasting the Tradition: Aristotle to the Copernicans.1.3 Chapter 3: The Two-Sphere Universe in Aristotelian Thought.1.2 Chapter 2: The Problem of the Planets.1.1 Chapter 1: The Ancient Two-Sphere Universe. ![]()
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