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Books by Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American philosopher of science, historian, and physicist. He is best known today as the author of the 1962 landmark study of scientific progress, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Kuhn’s other books include “The Copernican Revolution” and “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912.” He died from lung cancer at the age of 73, on June 17, 1996.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

For a long time it was believed that science developed incrementally, by the accumulation of individual inventions and discoveries. However, in 1962, American philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn demonstrated that rather than developing in a linear and continuous way, science progresses through periodic “paradigm shifts,” a phrase he invented. His landmark study, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” is still as controversial as when it was first published.

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