The Essential Tension

Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

Thomas S. Kuhn

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780226458069
  9780226458052
• eBook ISBN:
  9780226217239
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science History
• Index: Biological Sciences

"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature

Index

Compiled by Robert S. Bernstein

Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, 51–52, 56, 58–59, 93, 101 n, 196, 207 n

Accademia del Cimento, 58

Accuracy. See Precision

Ackermann, J. S., 340, 344–45, 348–50

Action at a distance, 25. See also Forces; Physics, Newtonian

Adiabatic compression, 92–94

Aepinus, F. U. T., 47

Aesthetics, 342–43

Agassi, J., 107, 122

Agricola, G., 56 n, 57; De re metallica, 57

Agriculture, 52, 144

Alchemy, 44, 47, 214

d’Alembert, J. L., 85, 97 n; Traité de dynamique, 85

Algebra, 38, 41, 61

Alhazen, 136

Allen, L., 61 n

Amontons, G., 51

Ampère, A. M., 61–62

Anatomy, 31, 37 and n, 40 n, 52, 112

Anderson, C. D., 167 n

Anomaly, xvii, 28, 165, 173–74, 191, 202–11 and nn, 221, 236, 262. See also Crisis, scientific

Anthropology, 112

Applied science. See Science, and technology

Apprenticeship, 296

Approximation. See Precision

Archimedes, 37, 40, 116, 215; Floating Bodies, 36, 56

Architecture, 55

Aristotelians, xi, 25–29

Aristotelian scientific tradition, xi, xiii, 25–30, 55, 246. See also Physics, Aristotelian and individual subjects

Aristotle, xi–xiv, 20, 22–25, 28, 37–38, 41, 246–47, 253–64; Mechanical Problems, 55–56; Physica, xi, 246, 255

Armitage, A., 204 n

Art and science, xv, xxi, 55–57, 132, 138, 143, 152, 159, 228, 231, 340–51. See also Architecture;...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Dediction
• Contents
• Preface
• I. Historiographic Studies
• II. Metahistorical Studies
• Notes
• Index