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Re: a history debate...ref found



I think this is missing Kuhn't point. As I remember his remarks, he didn't
consider an historical approach a good one for introducing and teaching
physics concepts. Students would be exposed to too many wrong turns along
the way. But I don't think he opposed the idea of scientists learning
accurate history, in fact his earlier work on the Copernican Revolution is
an excellent piece of science history.

--
Bob and Kathie Yeend <ryeend@earthlink.net>


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From: "Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@EMAIL.BOISESTATE.EDU>
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: a history debate...ref found
Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2001, 4:02 PM



The idea that it is not desirable for future scientists to be taught
accurate history, to which some of the above remarks are directed, was
expressed by Thomas Kuhn in his STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS