I've been reading the first few years of Popular Science for a project [0]. In the 1870s, the magazine is an interesting slice of science and philosophy. It rea

I've been reading the first few years of Popular Science for a project [0]. In the 1870s, the magazine is an interesting slice of science and philosophy. It really shows the breadth and power of Edward Youmans' network. Here's a cool article [1] about how the founding of Popular Science was bound up with Herbert Spencer's book The Study of Sociology (1873) and was printed on a shoestring budget. [0] https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1873/ https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1873/ [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/986404 https://www.jstor.org/stable/986404