A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.

This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book…

A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics… . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest…

Before he wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn wrote The Quest for Physical Theory--a series of eight lectures that examine the nature of scientific knowledge, how it is…

The early twentieth century brought about the rejection by physicists of the doctrine of determinism - the belief that complete knowledge of the initial conditions of an interaction in nature…