The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 

Rather than dripping along discovery by discovery, this book argues that science jumps in paradigm shifts, each creating a new map from which to interpret the world, until the next one comes along that fits better. By Thomas Kuhn. 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a book about the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress, which Kuhn referred to as periods of "normal science", were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The discovery of "anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms. New paradigms then ask new questions of old data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving" of the previous paradigm, change the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research.