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Thomas Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 -
In his first book, The Copernican Revolution, Thomas Kuhn published his research on the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance.
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Kuhn made a dramatic declaration that the history of science unveils advocates of opposing paradigms failing to connect fully. Kuhn described the combined reasons for these limits to communication as the incommensurability as baggage of the pre- and post-revolutionary scientific periods. He spent several decades insisting that incommensurability neither expresses nor implies incomparability, and it does not make science irrational.
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In one of his most influential books, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn argued and presented his views on the history and development of science. He argued that scientific thought and periods are guided by a paradigm. He questioned the conventional notion of scientific progress being linear and cumulative knowledge. This book has become a major influence in a variety of fields but especially in the field of philosophy of science.
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The paradigm shift concept is still used today to explain the flow and progression of science. This idea and explanation of how science progresses is one of his greatest impacts in the field of science. https://youtu.be/Yn8cCDtVd5w
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Thomas Kun published Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912, a book in which he dove in to the development of quantum mechanics.
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