Thursday 13 September 2018

Case #3 in Point - Chemistry - Against Kuhn's Revolutions and Paradigms

Some thoughts on the History of Chemistry (against SSR of T. Kuhn)

1. Development of volumetric flask, graduated cylinder, pipet, buret.
2. Development of SI-units.
3. Discoveries of the elements, The Table of Elements.
4. The development of The Table of Elements, system.
5. Identifying substance properties, the chemical properties.
6. Atomic model? The molecules, etc.
7. The number of chemists (alchemists, earlier).
8. The universities actually doing chemistry (or alchemy). Case of psychology, universities started fairly late.
9. Gunpowder, etc. Natural compounds.

History of chemistry being the 3. case in point against Kuhn's SSR.

Thus we have a start? Yes.

Links, 2,
Blogspot, Criticism of Kuhn's Paradigms - Building Babel's Tower: https://whatiswritten777.blogspot.com/2013/07/criticism-of-kuhns-paradigms-building.html
Blogspot, Case in Point - Astronomy - Against Kuhn's Revolutions and Paradigms: https://whatiswritten777.blogspot.com/2017/01/case-in-point-astronomy-against-kuhns.html + Case #2 of Pendulum vs. swinging stones