The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western ThoughtHarvard University Press, 1957 - 297 sayfa For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Thomas S. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man’s concept of his relation to the universe and to God. |
İçindekiler
The Ancient TwoSphere Universe | 1 |
The Problem of the Planets | 45 |
The TwoSphere Universe in Aristotelian Thought | 78 |
Recasting the Tradition Aristotle to the Copernicans | 100 |
Copernicus Innovation | 134 |
The Assimilation of Copernican Astronomy | 185 |
The New Universe | 229 |
Technical Appendix | 266 |
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