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Birth to Death
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18th, 1922, he was born in Cincinatti, Ohio USA. He died at Cambridge University, Massachusetts USA on June 17th, 1996. When he passed, he was 76 years old, and he passed because of Lung Cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 1994. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ -
The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn wrote “The Copernican Revolution” in 1957, in which he studied Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory proposal and its’ impact on society during the Renaissance. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn wrote “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” in 1962, in which he coined the term “paradigm” or “paradigm shift” as a way of describing how societal changes skew the perception of scientific theories. This book created its' own paradigm shift and assisted in the creation of some excellent scientific theories. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions/summary