An essay on Thomas Kuhn's first scientific revolution, the Copernican Revolution

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-120

  Swerdlow, N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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References (20)

1. Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn cited in this essay: The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957
2. The Essential Tension, Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977
3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Third Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
4. Writings of James B. Conant pertinent to the historical method of teaching natural science at Harvard: On Understanding Science. An Historical Approach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947
5. The Growth of the Experimental Sciences. An Experiment in General Education. Progress Report on the Use of the Case Method in Teaching the Principles of the Tactics and Strategy of Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949
6. Science and Common Sense. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951
7. With L. K. Nash, ed. Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957
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9. Other works consulted or pertinent to this essay: "A Discussion with Thomas S. Kuhn." A discussion between Thomas S. Kuhn and Aristides Baltas, Kostas Gavroglu, Vasso Kindi. Neusis 6 (1997), 143-98
10. reprinted in T. S. Kuhn, The Road since Structure, ed. J. Conant and J. Haugeland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 255-323
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17. Keller, P. Getting at the Core. Curricular Reform at Harvard. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982
18. Kuhn, T. S. "Professionalization Recollected in Tranquillity." Isis 75 (1984), 29-32
19. Shirley, J. W. "The Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science: The Evolution of an Idea." American Journal of Physics 19 (1951), 419-23
20. Westman, R. S. "Two Cultures or One? A Second Look at Kuhn's The Copemican Revolution." Isis 85 (1994), 79-115