The structure of scientific revolutions

Thomas Samuel Kun is an American physicist and one of the most influential philosophers of science of the XX century. His book “The structure of scientific revolutions” is one of the most cited scientific books in the history of science.
The structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Kun was first published in 1962 and caused violent disputes in scientific circles. Kun drew attention to the discrepancy between the usual understanding of the development of science and the picture that historical analysis gave. The traditional model of the development of science involves the continuous process of accumulation of knowledge, when each new discovery is based on the previous ones, but the kun as a result of its research came to the conclusion that the development of science is explosive when the old scientific paradigm undergoes a radical transformation. Now the concept of Kun"s scientific revolutions is universally recognized, and the book has become an international intellectual bestseller