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= Selection from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) = Read the selection carefully and use the below questions to guide your reading. You should be able to complete all six questions when you have completed the reading. They were written as Mr. Johnson was reading the article, so don't go on to the next one unless you have answered the previous one.

//Selections from// __The__ __Structure of Scientific Revolutions__ __(1962) publ. University of Chicago Press, 1962.__ [[file:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.doc]]
1.How is the nature of political and scientific revolutions similar? What is a paradigm?

2.How are paradigms changed? Give an example of a discovery that would cause the change of a major paradigm.

3.How are new theories/paradigms developed? What is the role of anomalies in the construction of new scientific paradigms?

4.What is normal science?How does normal science resist shifts in established paradigms? Give an example of this conflict from the history of science.

5.What was the significance of Newton and his discoveries to the scientific community and the approach to science?

6.Based on your understanding of the nature of scientific revolutions, draw a diagram with time along the horizontal axis and knowledge of the natural world on the vertical and attempt to graph the progress of scientific discovery.

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