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Comment author: gwern 09 November 2015 07:00:30PM 0 points [-]

I suppose new information could rewrite history, but I don’t think that happened.

New information and representations and analysis of old information are both possible. I don't remember if Kuhn himself focused on the case of Galileo, but a lot of people took him to be a paradigmatic case (sorry!) and Feyerabend undermined a lot of that through close re-examination of primary sources, in support of his own particular philosophy of science.