In retrospect: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Kaiser, David I.
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April 2012
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Nature
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Nature Publishing Group
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Kaiser, David. "In retrospect: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Nature 484 (2012), 164–166.
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Abstract
Fifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had migrated to the history and philosophy of science. His main argument in the book — his second work, following a study of the Copernican revolution in astronomy — was that scientific activity unfolds according to a repeating pattern, which we can discern by studying its history.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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https://doi.org/10.1038/484164a
