Teadusfilosoofia – ja metodoloogia
tänapäevase maailmapildi juurde? 172. et õpikud teadusrevolutsioone endast
niimoodi kätkeksid, siis tuleb neid uuesti ümber kirjutada kui uus revolutsioon on
esinenud. Õpikud ei paku ajaloo aspekti – ei näidata, miks teadlased ja kuidas on
uue paradigma vastu võtnud. Daltoni ja Newtoni näide 175. Õpikut ei näita
progressi 176.
The 11th Chapter in Kuhn’s ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ is titled ‘The
Invisibility of Scientific Revolutions’. In this chapter Kuhn revisits the themes
developed in earlier chapters. He explains that the celebrated scientific
revolutions that he uses as examples are selected solely that the reader is
already familiar with them. Kuhn suggests in this chapter that revolutions are
invisible because of historical revisionism in science textbooks. His argument
runs along the following lines. Firstly assuming that scientists and laypeople use
textbooks as the primary source of learning about a scientific field then the