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Birth
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Copernican Revolution(1922-1996)
One of Thomas Kuhn first books was The Copernican Revolution. In this book he began to go back over the Copernican Revolution by going over the scientific character of ancient theories of the Greek philosophers hit especially went over the two-sphere system. The only problem of that system was the movement of the planets and stars and their positions. But that started to change with Ptolemy with the dimensions of the cosmology and mathematical accuracy of astronomy and this opened up -
Paradigm Shift(1922-1996)
In 1962 Thomas Kuhn would publish The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This by far is one of his most famous books. This Book would change almost everything that historians, philosopher's, and sociologist and how they write about science, but is still a huge debate to some. This book also has it influence in other areas as well. A paradigm shift can be viewed as a change in the basic ideas and in experimental ideas in scientific discipline. This term can be even be seen out of -
The Kuhn cycle(1922-1996)
This cycle was a simple way of breaking down the progress of a paradigm by Kuhn. One of his challenges is to change the way we look at science. As he reviewed the past major scientific advances, he showed that their viewpoints were wrong. Science advanced heavily in some certain revolutions with a giant leap of new knowledge and new ways of looking at things, and kuhn used these times to come up with his cycle. With every field it has to start somewhere in which he calls Pre-science, -
Incommensurability(1922-1996)
While writing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Kuhn would also Start his thesis on Incommensurability Thomas Khun went over how the idea of a paradigm shift in any specific group of science are incommensurable with each other, which means it's not comparable of any standard. If two paradigms cannot be compared and they will become rivals. Just like any argument one side might think their side is more correct then the other with specific facts pertaining to the argument. -
Death
Cambridge, Massachusetts
