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La rivoluzione copernicana. L'astronomia planetaria nello sviluppo del pensiero occidentale
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.02 AVERAGE
4 reviews for:
La rivoluzione copernicana. L'astronomia planetaria nello sviluppo del pensiero occidentale
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.02 AVERAGE
Among the infinite conceptions of the universe, science favors those that are most unified with experience and with each other. In its drive towards oneness, science is a sort of mysticism. New conceptions are often originally conceived by those seeking order despite the lack of experience that shows that it’s actually there. It’s a guess, or a hope, or an ideal that derives coherence in the world and makes sense to the thinker. This was the case for Copernicus, and Aristotle before him. In the early days of modern western thought, it was also the case for those who made progress that revealed Copernicanism to be a better fit with experience than previous conceptions. Of course, anyone doing work towards what has not yet been demonstrated appears a fool to all of whom are not on board with the starry-eyed new view. And dogma will perpetuate potentially false views, whether they have any sort of demonstration or not. Kuhn makes the example of the Copernican Revolution particularly accessible by his thorough description of astronomical observations with which thinkers grappled. The interplay of observation, philosophy, religion, and science across history is fascinating. It’s an illumination of how ideas work. Technology played an important role in the Copernican Revolution, particularly as a catalyst, but was not required. The story that Kuhn presents is one of the clearest cases of thought revolution, and perhaps it is a macrocosm of the churn of ideas in society, or in oneself.
A good introduction to the history of western astronomy concerned with how it affected (and was affected by) other areas of thought. Goes through Newton.
A very in-depth look into what fueled the Copernican revolution, what surrounded it, and its consequences. Kuhn explains the role conceptual schemes have in science and demonstrates their power with the history of Copernicus and his dependency on Ptomely and Aristotle. But, alongside this history, it develops the revolution that science always undergoes, the constant destruction of the faulty alongside the construction of the better.
I was not expecting to like this, because science. I loved it, because SCIENCE!