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Published online 7 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070903-20
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Arthur Eddington was innocent!
The trend for debunking science's simple narratives can be overdone, says Philip Ball.
There was once a time when the history of science was told as a succession of Eureka moments in which strokes of experimental or theoretical genius led the scales to fall from our eyes, banishing old, false ideas to the dustbin.
Now we are encouraged to think that things don't happen that way at all.
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