Thomas S. Kuhn

A true first edition of Kuhn's hugely influential monograph, which redefined scientific progress not as a series of slow developments but rather abrupt leaps forward — a book whose impact and ideas extended far beyond academic circles.

• Thomas S. Kuhn (American).
• (Chicago): The University of Chicago Press, (1962).
• [xvi], 172 pages.
• First printing.
• Original printed yellow wrappers.

"Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions."

Kuhn, a trained physicist who came to identify himself as a "practicing historian of science," made a great impact on the thought of specialists and the general public alike, superseding Karl Popper as the most widely read and influential philosopher of science. The influence of Structure was so pervasive and long-lasting that the "really quite shocking" quality of his thought has faded from view for wanderers in a rhetorical landscape now littered, thanks to Kuhn, with paradigms and revolutions.

This is the true first edition of Kuhn's classic, issued no later than September of 1962 (as noted on the inside rear cover) as Volume II, Number 2 of The International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, published as part of the University of Chicago Foundations of the Unity of Science series (a hardcover trade edition followed in October of that same year).