Title:
Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Artist: Spy
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Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Proctor (1837-1888) founded Knowledge, a science periodical, in 1881, published first as a weekly then as a monthly. From 1873 he lectured successfully in America. Cartoon titled 'Astronomy' from Vanity Fair. (London, 3 March 1883).