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Paperback. Condizione: Good+. First Edition; Twenty-Fourth Printing. B&W Illustrations; 297 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Very Good condition otherwise. No noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Condizione: New. For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem .

First edition. 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.