Thomas Kuhn on Dalton’s New System of Chemistry

„What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.“

Thomas KuhnThomas Kuhn explains how Dalton’s new system of chemical philosophy transformed established chemistry and scientific research.
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Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist, philosopher of science, and historian of science.

Thomas Kuhn describes how Dalton’s new way of thinking rapidly transformed established chemical research.


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Thomas Kuhn quote about Dalton's new system of chemical philosophy and the practice of chemistry

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) was one of the influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. In his major work, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” he described the development of science as a sequence of periods of normal science interrupted by scientific revolutions. He is particularly associated with the concept of the paradigm shift and with the idea that different paradigms may be incommensurable.

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