* Foreword by James Bryant Conant *1. The Ancient Two-Sphere Universe *2. The Problem of the Planets *3. The Two-Sphere Universe in Aristotelian Thought *4. Recasting the Tradition. Aristotle to the Copernicans *5. Copernicus' Innovation *6. The Assimilation of Copernican Astronomy *7. The New Universe * Technical Appendix * References * Bibliographical * Notes * Index
Thomas S. Kuhn was an American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science.
Reading this book in the current age of extrasolar planets,
genetics and string theory is eye-opening.
*Nature*
An illuminating account of the intellectual transformation which
laid the foundations of modern science and philosophy, and which
may therefore be said to have created the modern world.
*Scientific American*
No other book is so patient, so comprehensive, so sensitive, in its
recovery of the experience and the outlook from which the older
scientific theories emerged. No other book so enables us to see the
intellectual hurdles that existed and to relive something of the
process of actual scientific discovery.
*American Historical Review*
In this study of the Copernican Revolution, [Thomas Kuhn] brings to
a common focus the considered approach of the historian, the
technical understanding of the scientist and the skill and
experience of an able teacher. No careful reader of this
well-wrought volume can fail to appreciate the nicely balanced
interplay of these elements in the full explication of one of the
major turning points in the evolution of scientific thought. For
those concerned with the teaching of the history of science, Dr.
Kuhn’s discussion of the issues involved in the Copernican
Revolution will prove to be indispensable, a superb analysis of the
‘anatomy of revolution.’ Those drawn to the question of meaning
which the historian of science can give to the evolution of ideas
will find this book equally valuable, a paradigm of synthesis and
interpretation.
*Isis*
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