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Article: Darwin. (book reviews)
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- History Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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History, if viewed as a repository
for more than anecdote or
chronology, could produce a
decisive transformation in the
image of science by which we are
now possessed.
* These are the opening words of the single most influential work of post-war history of science -- Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Using his own work on the |Copernican Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Kuhn offered a general model according to which a scientific community alternates between calmer periods of |normal science' located safely within an accepted |paradigm' and more turbulent periods of ...