The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [SEP] publisher
Kuhn addressed concerns in the 1969 postscript to the second edition. For some commentators "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced a realistic humanism into the core of science, while for others the nobility of science was tarnished by Kuhn's introduction of an irrational element into the heart of its greatest achievements.
History.
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was first published as a monograph in the "International Encyclopedia of Unified Science", then as a book by University of Chicago Press in 1962. In 1969, Kuhn
publication was borne by Edmund Halley (who was also then acting as publisher of the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society"): the book appeared in summer 1687.
Historical context.
Historical context Beginnings of the Scientific Revolution.
Nicolaus Copernicus had moved the Earth away from the center of the universe with the heliocentric theory for which he presented evidence in his book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres") published in 1543. The structure was completed when Johannes Kepler wrote