> virions,
>
> Just thought I'd pass along a recommendation for a book:
>
> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition
> by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970
> (International Encylopedia of Unified Science, volume 2, number 2)
>
> For once, somebody actually looked at the way science worked *historically*
> in order to determine how science works, rather than the much more usual
> arm-chair philosopher approach...
>
> Certainly it reveals a different picture than we usually frame science
> with.
>
> According to my dad, this book (or actually large essay is more
> appropriate) was voted by the U. o. Guelph philosophy department to be one
> of the five most important academic works in the twentieth century. Of
> course, he said he has never heard of three of the others...
>
> ERiC
>
His other book, THE ESSENTIAL TENSION, is good, too.