- The Copernican Revolution (book)
"The Copernican Revolution" (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the historical shift in the scientific understanding of planetary movement.
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Copernican Revolution — For the 1957 book by Thomas Kuhn, see The Copernican Revolution (book). For metaphorical uses of the term, see Copernican Revolution (metaphor). Motion of Sun, Earth, and Mars according to heliocentrism (left) and to geocentrism (right), before… … Wikipedia
Kant’s Copernican revolution — Daniel Bonevac Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was to transform the philosophical world, at once bringing the Enlightenment to its highest intellectual development and establishing a new set of problems that would dominate philosophy in… … History of philosophy
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and paradigm shift .HistoryThe work was first published as a monograph in the … Wikipedia
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Scientific revolution — This article is about a period in the history of science. For the process of scientific progress via revolution, proposed by Thomas Kuhn, see Paradigm shift … Wikipedia
Copernican System — The heliocentric or sun centered theory of the universe was postulated by a great Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 1543). For more than fourteen hundred years people had accepted the system of Ptolemy, namely, that the sun moved… … Dictionary of eponyms
History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… … Wikipedia
