The amusing thing about this book is that the main idea was a big deal for philosophers of science, but a commonplace notion for historians of science. That’s b

The amusing thing about this book is that the main idea was a big deal for philosophers of science, but a commonplace notion for historians of science. That’s because the former had no idea how science worked, but the latter were intimate with its actual development. Kuhn was an excellent historian of science: his Copernican Revolution is his real masterpiece.