PDF-(READ)-The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective in this scientific age from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical philosophical and humanistic elements Thomas S Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought and a crisis in Western mans concept of his relation to the universe and to GodThe book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks Mr Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief He describes the many functionsastronomical scientific and nonscientificof the Greek concept of the universe concentrating especially on the religious implications He then treats the intellectual social and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus break with traditional astronomy Although many of these developments including scholastic criticism of Aristotles theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism lie entirely outside of astronomy they increased the flexibility of the astronomers imagination That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovationWith a final analysis of Copernicus life workits reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universeMr Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and selfconsistent conception of the universe and of his own place in itThis is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and in particular in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword Professor Kuhns handling of the subject merits attention forhe points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times. 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