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Publication details [#20303]
Gross, Alan G. 1987. The first Copernican: Rational conversion as a model for scientific change. In Fuller, Steve and Charles Willard. In defence of relativism: Rescuing incommensurability from the self-excepting fallacy. In : 313–320. : 347–356.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
The author examines the role of rhetorics in scientific revolutions, i.e. the way in which it contributes to establish the `acceptability' of new scientific theories for the (scientific) community. Object of study are early works of Copernicus and Kepler.