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Thomas Kuhn's first book was titled The Copernican Revolution and focused on the shift of the view of the universe o the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. In the book Kuhn speaks about how the transition to the Keplerian system changed how we look at everyday problems.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolution was published in 1962. Its idea was that science is a process that repeats itself. The book also speaks about anomalies and how they cause a "paradigm shift" in science.
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Thomas Kuhn wrote his incommensurability thesis in 1962. He stated there is no neutral ground we can use to assess which of two paradigms is better than the other. Kuhn argued that there is no way of comparing rival paradigms. Therefore, no scientific progress can be made during a scientific revolution because the old paradigm isnt being used.
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Kuhn identified the term "Normal Science" in his book The structure of Scientific Revolutions. Normal science is current science that is operating on the established paradigm for that time period. For example Galilean science at the time was considered normal science because it is operating under the principles of the current paradigm of the time.
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Major works: Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Print. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Essential Tension : Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. Chicago :University of Chicago Press, 1977.