A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.

With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age.

This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. Newly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.

一本好书可能有能力改变我们看待世界的方式，但一本伟大的书实际上已经成为我们日常意识的一部分，渗透到我们的思维中，以至于我们认为这是理所当然的，我们忘记了它的观点曾经是多么具有挑衅性和挑战性--而且现在仍然如此。科学革命的结构》就是这样的一本书。当它于1962年首次出版时，它是科学史和科学哲学中的一个里程碑事件。50年后的今天，它仍然有许多教训可供借鉴。

通过《科学革命的结构》，库恩对长期存在的科学进步的线性概念提出了挑战，他认为变革性的想法并不是从日常的、渐进的实验和数据积累过程中产生的，而是科学中的革命，那些打乱公认思维并提供意想不到的想法的突破性时刻，发生在他所说的 "正常科学 "之外。尽管库恩是在物理学统治科学的时候写作的，但他关于科学革命如何为研究实验中长期积累的异常现象带来秩序的观点，在我们的生物技术时代仍然具有指导意义。

这本新版的库恩在科学史上的重要著作包括伊恩-哈金（Ian Hacking）的精辟介绍，其中澄清了库恩普及的术语，包括范式和不可比性，并将库恩的思想应用于当今的科学。哈金的介绍与本书的各个部分都有关联，提供了重要的背景信息和当代背景。该版本经过全新设计，并增加了索引，将受到寻求了解我们对科学的观点的历史的下一代读者的热烈欢迎。