Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Science and the Public 375


  1. J. S. Middleton, “Mann, Thomas (1856–1941),” in Dictionary of National Biogra-
    phy 1941–1950, ed. L.G. Wickham Legg and E. T. Williams (London: Oxford University
    Press, 1959), 568–570.

  2. Tom Mann, Tom Mann’s Memoirs (London: Macgibbon & Kee Ltd., 1967), 13, 19.

  3. Ibid., 13, 16.

  4. Joyce Bellamy, “Redfern, Percy (1875–1958),” in Dictionary of Labour Biography,
    ed. Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville (London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1972), 1:280–81.

  5. Percy Redfern, Journey to Understanding (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.,
    1946), 12–13

  6. Ibid., 29, 32, 41, 40, 68, 70–71.

  7. Secord, Victorian Sensation, 520.

  8. For an important treatment of the relevant issues see Jonathan R. Topham
    et al., “Focus: Historicizing ‘Popular Science,’” Isis 100 (2009): 310–68.

  9. Andreas Daum, “Science, Politics, and Religion: Humboldtian Thinking and
    the Transformations of Civil Society in Germany, 1830–1870,” in Science and Civil So-
    ciety, ed. Tom Broman and Lynn Nyhart (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002),
    107–40.

  10. I am indebted to Lynn Nyhart for helping me to develop my thoughts on this
    point.

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