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Examples and experience: on the uncertainty of medicine STEPHEN PENDER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 1-28 doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007582 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006 Preview Abstract PDF (184 KB) HTML (146 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
The tale of the hermaphrodite monkey: classification, state interests and natural historical expertise between museum and court, 1791–4 ANNA MAERKER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 29-47 doi: 10.1017/S000708740500734X (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006 Preview Abstract PDF (153 KB) HTML (2.727 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
‘Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit’: standard time and Victorian networks of regulation DAVID ROONEY and JAMES NYE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 5-30 doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001180 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (147 KB) HTML (110 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
An eighteenth-century medical–meteorological society in the Netherlands: an investigation of early organization, instrumentation and quantification. Part 2 HUIB J. ZUIDERVAART The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 49-66 doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007594 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006 Preview Abstract PDF (227 KB) HTML (6.565 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 1 RUSSELL SMITH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, Mar 2008, pp 1-18 doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000362 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Sep 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
Making and circulating knowledge through Sir William Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei KAREN WOOD The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 67-96 doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007600 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006 Preview Abstract PDF (599 KB) HTML (9.783 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
Science and the politics of colonial collecting: the case of Indian meteorites, 1856–70 SAVITHRI PREETHA NAIR The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 97-119 doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007624 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006 Preview Abstract PDF (171 KB) HTML (454 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
Safety networks: fishery barometers and the outsourcing of judgement at the early Meteorological Department SARAH DRY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 35-56 doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001192 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (125 KB) HTML (95 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory: anthropologists, chemists and the fluorine dating method in palaeoanthropology MATTHEW R. GOODRUM and CORA OLSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 95-114 doi: 10.1017/S000708740800157X (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 13 Jan 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (121 KB) HTML (121 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
Magnetism and chronometers: the research of the Reverend George Fisher G. W. Roberts The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 57-72 doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001209 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 29 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (194 KB) HTML (3.46 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
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Top 10 Most-Read Articles

Examples and experience: on the uncertainty of medicine

STEPHEN PENDER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 1-28

doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007582 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006

The tale of the hermaphrodite monkey: classification, state interests and natural historical expertise between museum and court, 1791–4

ANNA MAERKER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 29-47

doi: 10.1017/S000708740500734X (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006

‘Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit’: standard time and Victorian networks of regulation

DAVID ROONEY and JAMES NYE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 5-30

doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001180 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

An eighteenth-century medical–meteorological society in the Netherlands: an investigation of early organization, instrumentation and quantification. Part 2

HUIB J. ZUIDERVAART

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 49-66

doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007594 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006

Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 1

RUSSELL SMITH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, Mar 2008, pp 1-18

doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000362 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Sep 2007

Making and circulating knowledge through Sir William Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei

KAREN WOOD

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 67-96

doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007600 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006

Science and the politics of colonial collecting: the case of Indian meteorites, 1856–70

SAVITHRI PREETHA NAIR

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 01, Mar 2006, pp 97-119

doi: 10.1017/S0007087405007624 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2006

Safety networks: fishery barometers and the outsourcing of judgement at the early Meteorological Department

SARAH DRY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 35-56

doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001192 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory: anthropologists, chemists and the fluorine dating method in palaeoanthropology

MATTHEW R. GOODRUM and CORA OLSON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 95-114

doi: 10.1017/S000708740800157X (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 13 Jan 2009

Magnetism and chronometers: the research of the Reverend George Fisher

G. W. Roberts

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 57-72

doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001209 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 29 Jul 2008