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Editorial
Nature 429, 487 (3 June 2004) | doi:10.1038/429487b
A question of priority
The need for scientists to establish priority for their discoveries is fundamental, but how they do it changes with the years. In the seventeenth century, scientists encrypted their results in anagrams embedded in clearly dated letters sent to colleagues.
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