- Cosmology, 1473-1543, Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
"The author brings to a common focus the considered approach of the historian, the technical understanding of the scientist and the skill and experience of an able teacher. No careful reader of this well-wrought volume can fail to appreciate the nicely balanced interplay of these elements in the full explication of one of the major turning points in the evolution of scientific thought.
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- Author
- Thomas S. Kuhn
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Vieweg Verlag, Friedr, & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Fayard, Harvard U.P.
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, und, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780674171008
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