Discuss The Evolution of Physics by Einstein and Infeld, The Structure of Scientific Revolution’s 50th Anniversary by Thomas S. Kuhn, and A History of Natural Philosophy by Edward Grant
Prompt:
Choose what you believe to be a paradigmatic conceptual framework in the history of science covered up to this point in the course. Your argument should refer to the specific stages and concepts Kuhn uses to describe paradigm shifts. (For example, what are some of the key anomalies of the previous paradigm? Which of these anomalies became critical anomalies? What were the specific crises these anomalies generated? How does the new paradigm deal with these?)
Critical Anomalies: change from the geocentric model(Aristotelian paradigm) to the heliocentric model(mechanical paradigm), Aristotle thought that a feather would take longer to hit the ground than a rock but Galileo proved this wrong leading to the mechanical paradigm, another thing that led to the mechanical paradigm is Newton showing that the speed of an object is proportional to the force that is applied to it, Galileo’s inclined plane experiment that proved Aristotelian thought was wrong in assuming the ball would stop straight after hitting the floor because it’s attracted to it.
