La rivoluzione copernicana. L'astronomia planetaria nello sviluppo del pensiero occidentale

There are few phrases more annoying or more effective than “I told you so.” This is my second encounter with Thomas Kuhn, and again I emerge deeply impressed. To do justice to an event so multifaceted as the Copernican Revolution a scholar must have a flexible mind; and Kuhn is fully equal to the Leggi tutto

An extremely accessible book on the Copernican revolution. From Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coperni... "Copernicus removed Earth from the center of the universe, set the heavenly bodies in rotation around the Sun, and introduced Earth's daily rotation on its axis." And, that certainly set the c Leggi tutto

Oh man, this book is wonderful. I'm a bit biased: it manages to touch on pretty much everything that I like and weave them together in a way that's fascinating and compelling. While I'm not a scientist myself - a pretty intense aversion to math when I was in high school turned me away from that - I

Copernicus ile başlayan Newton'la sonuçlanan ve inançtan bilime, felsefeden politikaya bir çok disiplini etkileyen, insanlığı bugüne taşıyan muazzam bir devrimi okudum. . .

This book is one of the most inspiring -- and most humbling -- books that I've read in quite some time. I've been interested in astronomy since I was a kid, so the story of Copernicus and Kepler is one I thought I knew. But Kuhn brings out several aspects I hadn't understood before. Kuhn draws attent Leggi tutto

I'm not sure I understood any of the science and math but this book was fabulous in laying out the intellectual history of the time. I really loved reading those sections.