tailieunhanh - "Crisis" versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution

Tham khảo tài liệu '"crisis" versus aesthetic in the copernican revolution', văn hoá - nghệ thuật phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | D A s H DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP AT HARVARD Crisis versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Gingerich Owen. 1975. Crisis versus aesthetic in the Copernican revolution. Vistas in Astronomy 17 1 85-95. Published Version doi 0083-6656 75 90050-1 Accessed February 9 2013 4 37 04 AM EST Citable Link http urn-3 4258973 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University s DASH repository and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material as set forth at http urn-3 LAA Article begins on next page Crisis versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution Owen Gingerich Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory In a chapter in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions entitled Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories Thomas Kuhn states If awareness of anomaly plays a role in the emergence of phenomena it should surprise no one that a similar but more profound awareness is prerequisite to all acceptable changes of theory. On this point historical evidence is I think unequivocal. The state of Ptolemaic astronomy was a scandal before Copernicus announcement. 1 A paragraph later he elaborates For some time astronomers had every reason to suppose that these attempts would be as successful as those that had led to Ptolemy s system. Given a particular discrepancy astronomers were invariably able to eliminate it by making some particular adjustment in Ptolemy s system of compounded circles. But as time went on a man looking at the net result of the normal research effort of many astronomers could observe that astronomy s complexity was increasing far more rapidly than its accuracy and that a discrepancy corrected in one place was likely to show up in another. The .

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