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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of scientific knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and paradigm shift. Kuhn's book argues that the evolution of scientific theory does not emerge from the straightforward accumulation of facts, but rather from a set of changing intellectual circumstances and possibilities.

Table of contents

	Preface
I	Introduction: A Role for History	1
II	The Route to Normal Science	10
III	The Nature of Normal Science	23
IV	Normal Science as Puzzle-solving	35
V	The Priority of Paradigms	43
VI	Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries	52
VII	Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories	66
VIII	The Response to Crisis	77
IX	The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions	92
X	Revolutions as Changes of World View	111
XI	The Invisibility of Revolutions	136
XII	The Resolutions of Revolutions	144
XIII	Progress through Revolutions	160
	Postscript-1969	174
	Index	211