Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
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The Paradime Shift in Ptolemaic Astronomy
Ptolemaic astronomy had a lot of virtues, and could make a lot of predictions. The problem was that over the course of time its predictions, there were these anomalies. Copernicus comes along and just says he's not steeped into the paradime. And then you go to the new paradime of planetary motion which becomes eventually the new copernican view.
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