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Key Phrases: second scientific revolution, first scientific revolution, eventual revolution, Glorious Revolution, Royal Society, Chemical Revolution (more...)
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Professor Cohen's Revolution in Science offers an impressive survey--with his own critical insights and interpretations--of the concept of revolutions. Only someone with his prodigious erudition and knowledge of the history of science could undertake such a project. In short, Professor Cohen's book is wide-ranging in scope, packed with details of substance and interpretation, and will appeal to a similarly wide-ranging readership. It is a masterful study
--Joseph W. Dauben


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Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic physics, and even plate tectonics and molecular biology, into the larger fabric of intellectual history.

How did "revolution," a term from the physical sciences, meaning a turning again and implying permanence and recurrence--the cyclical succession of the seasons, the 'revolutions' of the planets in their orbits--become transformed into an expression for radical change in political and socioeconomic affairs, then become appropriated once again to the sciences?

How have political revolutions--French, American, Bolshevik--and such intellectual forces as Darwinism further modified the concept, from revolution in science as a dramatic break with the past to the idea that science progresses by the slow accumulation of knowledge? And what does each transformation in each historical period tell us about the deep conceptual changes in our image of the scientist and scientific activity?

Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea. His book is a probing analysis of the history of an idea and one of the most impressive surveys of the history of science ever undertaken.

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  • Paperback: 732 pages
  • Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (March 15, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674767780
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674767782
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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second scientific revolution, first scientific revolution, eventual revolution, cyclical succession, nican revolution, chemical revolution, cyclical sense, scientific revolutionaries, great political revolutions, celestial dynamics, universal gravity
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Glorious Revolution, Royal Society, Chemical Revolution, Newton's Principia, Max Planck, Critique of Pure Reason, Das Kapital, Linnean Society, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Herbert Butterfield, Karl Marx, Max Born, New York Times, Nobel Prize, Tycho Brahe, Age of Revolutions, Auguste Comte, Kant's Copernican, Two New Sciences, United States, Albert Einstein, Alexandre Koyré, Alfred Wegener, Friedrich Engels
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A lengthy and well written exploration of the concept of revolutions in science, this book is partly historiography and partly an analysis of scientific revolutions. Are there scientific revolutions? If so, how are they identified? How have conceptions of scientific revolutions changed over time? What features do such revolutions exhibit? How do modern conceptions of scientific revolutions differ from older conceptions? What does revolution mean in this context or in other contexts? All these topics are examined. Cohen's approach is largely chronological narrative of these topics starting with the Scientific Revolution of early modern Europe. Much of this narrative is very well done and this book has some very nice and concise descriptions of major scientific developments. The discussion of the Scientific Revolution, Cohen's specialty, is particularly good. Analytically, however, this book is a bit disappointing. Cohen does articulate some ideas about how scientific revolutions occur but these are largely commonsense inferences. His criteria for identifying scientific revolutions essentially boil down to retrospective recognition of importance, not any structural analysis.
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