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The Copernican Revolution
This work o Kuhn's can be considered a precursor to his work done in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He elaborates on the impact Newton and Copernicus had on the scientific field in their respective times as examples of paradigm shifts in the progress of science.
Kuhn, T. S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. -
The Paradigm Shift
Although, Kuhn did not coin the phrase, paradigm shift, he did enlighten the phrase by arguing that the progression of science is not linear but is in short burst of rapid progress or revolutions. He elaborated on this by explaining that this paradigm shift is broken into three stages. Prescience, a stagnant state of progress. Normal Science initiates the paradigm. Lastly is the paradigm.
Kuhn, T. S. (2015). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. -
Accolades
Kuhn was awarded the George Starton Medal in 1982 by the History of Science Society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_kXuhRIoQ -
Scientific Critique
Often Kuhn would take a retrospective approach in his work by analyzing the works of scientists from the past. Black-Body Theory and The Quantum Discontinuity one of of these examples where he would explain how theories of that person are relative to the time they were created and may not hold the same water in the present.
Kuhn, T. S. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.