The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

Name: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Author: Kuhn, Thomas; James Bryant Conant [Foreword]

Kuhn, Thomas; James Bryant Conant [Foreword]

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1957

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First edition. Signed by Thomas Kuhn on the front free endpaper, inscribed to his pupil Norman L. Thomas (1925-1997), "For Norman Thomas who ought to correct it. [signed] Thomas Kuhn." Thomas was a professor of philosophy at Bakersfield College; his inkless emboss and personal library number on front free endpaper; his stamp on title page. xx, 297 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges, a few pencil underlines and marginal brackets, presumably by Thomas, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Very rare signed, especially with such a nice association. Kuhn's very first book, chronicling the shift from the Ptolemaic system to the Keplerian. What he learned examining this period would inspire his next and most famous work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in 1962.

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Title: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Author: Kuhn, Thomas; James Bryant Conant [Foreword]
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Publication year: 1957
Dust jacket: dj
Signed: Signed
Edition: First edition.
Seller catalogs: History, Philosophy, Science

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