Revolution in Science by I Bernard Cohen
Cohens 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.
Everyone, no matter how well informed, will be able to learn some new things from this book… There is nothing else like it for a panorama of what people have chosen to call revolution in science* New York Review of Books *
[The author] has perfected a spacious study of the whole idea of revolution… Monumental scholarship… In sheer variety of riches this book has few parallels. * Nature *
[Cohen] is a scholar of extraordinary erudition… He may well know more history of science than any scholar now alive. * Science *
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
[The author] has perfected a spacious study of the whole idea of revolution… Monumental scholarship… In sheer variety of riches this book has few parallels. * Nature *
[Cohen] is a scholar of extraordinary erudition… He may well know more history of science than any scholar now alive. * Science *
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
I. Bernard Cohen was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674767782 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674767780 |
| Title | Revolution in Science |
| Author | I Bernard Cohen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1987-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 732 |
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