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The structure of scientific revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

This landmark study analyses the history of science and the sociology of knowledge, popularising the concepts of paradigms and paradigm shifts.

Accession 6577 ISBN 0226458040 Publisher University of Chicago Press
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