Some Web sites that might help you understand the scientific background to Kuhn

The Lawrence University Kuhn resource page:

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/freshman_studies/resource/fskuhn.html#_CASE_STUDIES_FOR

Steven Dutch U. of Wisconsin Green Bay – lecture notes on Copernicus, Ptolemy, etc.:

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/suncentr.htm

Robert Hatch – University of Florida – Lovely site with animations of different explanations of planetary motions and accounts of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, etc.:

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/resource-ref-read/chief-systems/index.htm

And here is Professor Hatch’s “brief” outline of the history of science:

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/his-sci-outline/index.html

Michael Fowler – University of Virginia – lecture notes for history of science course

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/lecturelist.html

Fowler’s physics applets are cool, if not always relevant to our study

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/home.html

There is a Rice University site about Galileo that includes descriptions of the work of other early modern scientists and of Ptolemy. The home page is:

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/

A good place to start is:

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html

Early chemists (Lavoisier, Priestly, etc.):

U of Idaho history of chemistry site (brief and clear):

http://www.chem.uidaho.edu/~honors/gaslaws.html

A Caltech site emphasizing the religious and social background to early chemistry

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jeffreym/index.html

A brief overview of the history of chemistry as a whole by Paul Charlesworth of Michigan Tech (includes other aspects of science as well):

http://chemistry.mtu.edu/~pcharles/SCIHISTORY/HomePage.html

Websites about electricity, Leyden Jars, Franklin, etc.:

Our local museum of electricity, the Bakken (You could pay them a visit!):

http://www.thebakken.org/electricity/Leyden-jar.html

Michael Fowler, University of Virginia on the history of ideas about electricity and magnetism (more detailed):

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/E&M_Hist.html