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The Copernican Revolution
This is Kuhn's first book, he decided to study the development of the Heliocentric theory. This theory is the theory of the solar system from during the Renaissance. The Copernican Revolution was a shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric understanding of the universe, centered around Earth, to a Heliocentric understanding centered around the sun. -
Paradigm Shift
The paradigm shift can be defined as a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Shifts commonly occur when new technology emerges that radically alters the production process or manufacturing of a good or service. These shifts are what start revolutions just like the American Revolution. Paradigm shifts are important because they identify how we perceive reality. With out the shifts, there wouldn't be any new ways of thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2IEiYM_iYM -
The Essential Tension
This is basically an essay that Thomas Kuhn had written after The Copernican Revolution. It talks about a lot of brilliant things. One of these concepts is how is knowledge is captured. Another concept is why there are lots of innovation tend to happen all at once and then there are periods of considerably less innovation. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
Thomas Kuhn wrote the Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. It is a brilliant assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics.
