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These are the top 10 most-read articles for this title for the previous month. Most-read rankings are updated on a monthly basis.

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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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Material culture in the history of science: case studies from the National Maritime Museum

RICHARD DUNN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp 31-33
doi: 10.1017/S0007087408001246 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
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BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, Mar 2009, pp f1-f2
doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002222 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009
 
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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
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Francis Bacon's concept of objectivity and the idols of the mind

PEREZ ZAGORIN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 34, Issue 04, Dec 2001, pp 379-393
doi: 10.1017/S0007087401004411 (About doi), Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jan 2002
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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
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Cataloguing power: delineating ‘competent naturalists’ and the meaning of species in the British Museum

GORDON McOUAT

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 34, Issue 01, Mar 2001, pp 1-28
Published online by Cambridge University Press 18 Apr 2001
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