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• ISBN: 0226458075 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780226458076 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0226458083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780226458083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xiv, 212 p. ; 22 cm.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: a role for history -- The route to normal science -- The nature of normal science -- Normal science as puzzle-solving -- The priority of paradigms -- Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries -- Crisis and the emergence of scientific theories -- The response to crisis -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions -- Revolutions as changes of world view -- The invisibility of revolutions -- The resolutions of revolutions -- Progress through revolutions.

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