Literature/1962/Kuhn

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 * Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws and so on. In many cases those facets of civilizations have been as developed as our own. But only the civilizations that descend from Hellenic Greece have possessed more than the most rudimentary science. The bulk of scientific knowledge is a product of Europe in the last four centuries. No other place and time has supported the very special communities from which scientific productivity comes. (pp. 167-8)

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 * Sociology of scientific knowledge
 * Scientific revolution
 * Paradigm shift