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Excursus: Kuhn and the History of Science in Islamicate Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

Justin K. Stearns
Justin K. Stearns
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New York University - Abu Dhabi
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Summary

Thomas Kuhn's Structures of Scientific Revolutions provides a way to think of the development of the natural sciences in the Muslim world as differing from the path taken in Europe while also reflecting broad engagement with the sciences. This excursus argues for a weak version of Kuhn's paradigm to better understand the divergent fate of the natural sciences in the Muslim world.

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EpistemologyPhilosophy of scienceHistory of science
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Revealed Sciences
The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
 , pp. 170 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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