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Unit
4
SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION
READING
1. Read the text and complete the sentences using the phrases given be-
low:
A)
to discover practical applications
F)
to communicate their discoveries
B)
within an existing framework
G)
lead to
C)
develop
H)
obvious
D)
to
define normal science
I)
applied science
E)
patent law
J)
in contrast
1.
In “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (1962), American phi-
losopher and historian Thomas Kuhn made a distinction between what he
called
normal science
and episodes of
scientific revolution. He
(1)
… … … … … as the process of solving puzzles within the paradigms
currently established for one’s particular science. For instance, in astrono-
my, it has been believed for centuries that the planets orbited around the
Earth (the geocentric model) and complex models and calculations were
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