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The Copernican revolution: planetary astronomy in the development of western thought

Thomas S. Kuhn

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Frontmatter
Foreword by James Bryant Conant (page xiii)
Chapter 1: The Ancient Two-Sphere Universe (page 1)
Chapter 2: The Problem of the Planets (page 45)
Chapter 3: The Two-Sphere Universe in Aristotelian Thought (page 78)
Chapter 4: Recasting the Tradition: Aristotle to the Copernicans (page 100)
Chapter 5: Copernicus' Innovation (page 134)
Chapter 6: The Assimilation of Copernican Astronomy (page 185)
Chapter 7: The New Universe (page 229)
Technical Appendix (page 266)
References (page 279)
Bibliographical Notes (page 283)
Index (page 293)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
AS	46.1 (Mar. 1958): 64A	http://www.jstor.org/stable/27827073
SM	85.5 (Nov. 1957): 276-277	http://www.jstor.org/stable/21753
PASP	69.410 (Oct. 1957): 482-483	http://www.jstor.org/stable/40676710
BJPS	10.39 (Nov. 1959): 254-255	http://www.jstor.org/stable/686067
AHR	63.3 (Apr. 1958): 656-657	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1848896
RN	10.4 (Winter 1957): 217-220	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2858068
AMSC	27.1 (Winter 1957-58): 114	http://www.jstor.org/stable/41208363
JGE	10.4 (Oct. 1957): 244-246	http://www.jstor.org/stable/27795569
JHE	28.9 (Dec. 1957): 514	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978809
PSci	25.4 (Oct. 1958): 297-299	http://www.jstor.org/stable/185644
BA	34.1 (Winter 1960): 84	http://www.jstor.org/stable/40114442
SP	34.4 (Oct. 1959): 664-665	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2850681
AVCR	20.3 (Fall 1972): 314-319	http://www.jstor.org/stable/30217700
ISIS	49.3 (Sep. 1958): 366-367	http://www.jstor.org/stable/226957

Citable Link

Published: 2003

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN(s)

9780674171039 (paper)
9780674171008 (hardcover)

Subject

Science & Technology