Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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  1. Smith and Wise, Energy and Empire, 117–28.

  2. James Clerk Maxwell, “Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics,” in The
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  3. “Wrangler” was the name given to each Cambridge undergraduate placed in
    the fi rst class in the mathematical tripos.

  4. Maxwell, “Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics,” 247, 254.

  5. Secord, Victorian Sensation, 30.

  6. Ibid., 48, 69, 461, 41, 100–9, 3; Richard Yeo, “Science and Intellectual Author-
    ity in Mid- Nineteenth- Century Britain: Robert Chambers and ‘Vestiges of the Natural
    History of Creation,’” Victorian Studies 28 (Autumn 1984): 5–31.

  7. Secord, Victorian Sensation, 523–25.

  8. Steven Shapin, “Science and the Public,” in Companion to the History of Modern
    Science, ed. R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie, and M. J. S. Hodge (London:
    Routledge, 1990), 990–1007.

  9. Bernard Lightman, “‘Voices of Nature’: Popularizers of Victorian Science,” in
    Lightman, Victorian Science in Context, 187–211; Bernard Lightman, Victorian Populariz-
    ers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
    2007).

  10. Bernard Lightman, “The Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Scientifi c
    Narrative,” Victorian Review 25, no. 2 (1999): 1–29.

  11. Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science, 66.

  12. Evelleen Richards, “Huxley and Women’s Place in Science: the ‘Women Ques-
    tion’ and the Control of Victorian Anthropology,” in History, Humanity and Evolution,
    ed. James R. Moore (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 253–84.

  13. Suzanne Le- May Sheffi eld, Revealing New Worlds: Three Victorian Women Natural-
    ists (London: Routledge, 2001), 58.

  14. [Richard A. Proctor], “Science and Art Gossip,” Knowledge 2 (Oct. 27, 1882):
    349; Richard A. Proctor, “The Unknowable. A Digression Concerning the Name and
    Purpose of These Papers,” Knowledge 9 (June 1, 1886): 233–34; Richard A. Proctor, “The
    Unknowable; or, The Religion of Science,” Knowledge 9 (Nov. 1, 1885): 1–3.

  15. [Richard A. Proctor], “Science and Religion,” Knowledge 10 (June 1, 1887):
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  16. Richard A. Proctor, Wages and Wants of Science- Workers (London: Frank Cass
    and Company Limited, 1970), 38.

  17. [Richard A. Proctor], “Popular Astronomy,” Knowledge 1 (Feb. 17, 1882): 336.

  18. Bernard Lightman, “‘Knowledge’ Confronts ‘Nature’: Richard Proctor and
    Popular Science Periodicals,” in Culture and Science in the Nineteenth- Century Media, ed.
    Louise Henson et al. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004), 199–210.

  19. Richard A. Proctor, Flowers of the Sky (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), 2.

  20. Proctor, Wages and Wants of Science- Workers, 34–5.

  21. Ibid., 31.

  22. Evelleen Richards, “Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victo-
    rian Women Intellectuals,” in Lightman, Victorian Science in Context, 126; Richard A.
    Proctor, The Universe of Suns and Other Science Gleanings (London: Chatto and Windus,
    1884), 338.

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