The Copernican Revolution and Its Importance According to Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas S. Kuhn's Copernicus revolution planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought is a book that clarifies the importance of human and natural world from ancient times to the present. Thomas Kuhn vividly showed that the Copernicus revolution is not only a revolution in scientific theory but also a revolution of religious and conceptual ideas. "The Copernicus Revolution is an ideological revolution, human transformation of the concept of the universe, and relations with the universe," Kuhn pointed out in his book at the beginning. The unique and immovable center of the universe turns into Copernicus's third rock.

The aim of this paper is to summarize and criticize Thomas Kuhn's epoch-making article "The Structure of the Scientific Revolution". This will be done by analyzing the concept of his "paradigm", "ordinary science", "scientific revolution". After the outline, we show an example of the "Copernicus revolution" to demonstrate the paradigm shift empirically. The remainder of this white paper is critically studying Kuhn's paradigm concept and irresponsibility of the new revolution in particular. After centuries of religious and political turmoil, countless wars, and the notorious black death that struck nearly one-third of the population of Europe, Nicolaus Copernicus was published in 1543 in his publication De revolutionibus orbium Published in coelestium. Science Revolution But this revolution is not only in science but also in eternally changing the global perspective of every aspect of life.

In 1962, Thomas Kuhn announced the breakthrough event of post modern thinking "the structure of the scientific revolution". In the "structure of the scientific revolution", Kuhn proposed a fundamental idea; contrary to the mainstream view, scientific knowledge was obtained through the accumulation of facts and theories. In other words, people mistakenly promoted the development of science. The general view - the idea of ​​the whole civilization - is considered to be wrong. Only when the "truth" is overthrown, we can make a big leap in thinking. Most texts use the Copernicus revolution example to illustrate this point.