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The present essay illustrates a historiographic point and makes a historical point. The historiographic point is this: in the history of science, unlike other histories, error and redundancy tend to proliferate, perhaps due to the absence of a traditional requirement from writers to declare their interests, state their problems, express their viewpoints, and list the difficulties they leave not yet