In the case of 16th C astronomy (the first real science,) I don't think the enlightenment/empiricist narrative is far off..
..astronomy had a community of experts & a research programme. And with Brahe, indisputable proof of something "new."
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The idea of something "new" under the sun, Whig as it sounds to us, was really a paradigm shift.
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