Michael J. Crowe Bücher

The analysis focuses on the narrative structure of Sherlock Holmes stories, highlighting the concept of Gestalt shifts where Holmes uncovers new perspectives that lead to the resolution of cases. Michael J. Crowe employs Thomas S. Kuhn's theories to explore how these shifts contribute to the storytelling, emphasizing the intellectual and deductive prowess of Holmes. The examination covers four novels and fifty-six stories, offering insights into the detective's methods and the underlying themes of discovery and revelation in Doyle's work.

Prize-winning study traces the rise of the vector concept from the discovery of complex numbers through the systems of hypercomplex numbers to the final acceptance around 1910 of the modern system of vector analysis.