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Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twi... by Confusion on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:13AM (#10424890)
'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' by Thomas Kuhn also tells the actual story of Galileo, as well as a few others, quite well.
Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twi... by leephillips on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:30AM (#10425248)
A better book by Kuhn about this stuff is The Copernican Revolution. It's original and penetrating history of science without having to read "paradigm" in every paragraph.