About this history book
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vol. 2, No. 2) by Kuhn, Thomas S. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
2nd ed. — University Of Chicago Press, 1970. — 210 p. The book explores the psychology of belief that governs the acceptance of new concepts and innovations in science. Kuhn showed that the history of science is not one of linear, rational progress moving toward ever more accurate and complete knowledge of an objective reality. Rather, it’s one of radical shifts of vision in which a multitude of nonrational and nonempirical factors come into play. Kuhn showed that the theories of Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein were all self-contained and incommensurable with one another. There was no steady accumulation of truth in the form of objective knowledge about the physical universe. Instead each theory was a revolutionary break from the previous theory, resulting in the arbitrary replacement of one conceptual matrix, or worldview, by another. Once the matrix changed, the way science was done and applied was fundamentally different.
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226458083
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Philosophy