Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Science and Revolution
1. Introduction
2. The Stages of Revolutions in Science
3. Evidence for the Occurrence of Revolutions in Science
II. Historical Perspective on 'Revolution' and 'Revolution in Science'
4. Transformations in the Concept of Revolution
5. The Scientific Revolution: The First Recognition of Revolution in Science
6. A Second Scientific Revolution and Others?
III. Scientific Revolutionaries of the Seventeenth Century
7. The Copernican Revolution
8. Kepler, Gilbert, and Galileo: A Revolution in the Physical Sciences?
9. Bacon and Descartes
10. The Newtonian Revolution
11. Vesalius, Paracelsus, and Harvey: A Revolution in the Life Sciences?
IV. Changing Concepts of Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
12. Transformations during the Enlightenment
13. Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Scientific Revolution
14. Lavoisier and the Chemical Revolution
15. Kant's Alleged Copernican Revolution
16. The Changing Language of Revolution in Germany
17. The Industrial Revolution
V. Scientific Progress in the Nineteenth Century
18. By Revolution or Evolution?
19. The Darwinian Revolution
20. Faraday, Maxwell, and Hertz
21. Some Other Scientific Developments
22. Three French Views: Saint-Simon, Comte, and Cournot
23. The Influence of Marx and Engels
4. The Freudian Revolution
VI. The Twentieth Century, Age of Revolutions
25. The Scientists Speak
26. The Historians Speak
27. Relativity and Quantum Theory
28. Einstein on Revolution in Science
29. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics: A Revolution in Earth Science
30. Conclusion: Conversion as a Feature of Scientific Revolutions
Supplements
A Note on Citations and References
Notes
References
Index
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