Knowledge (magazine)

{{Short description|British science magazine published 1881–1918}}

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|founder=Richard A. Proctor

|publisher={{unbulleted list|W.H. Allen (1881-1891)|

Witherby & Co. (1891-1918)}}

| founded = 1881

| finaldate = 1918

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English language

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Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science was a British popular science magazine published from 1881 to 1918. Founded by astronomer Richard A. Proctor, the magazine started as a weekly periodical, becoming monthly in 1885. The magazine was known for its extensive correspondence columns. Proctor himself, the first editor, was a significant contributor, and many of his discoveries or theoretical deductions first appeared in the magazine.{{cite book|title=Index to the Periodical Literature of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2DQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA20|year=1892|publisher=The Review of Reviews |page=20}} Proctor was sometimes assisted in editorial duties by Edward Clodd. After Proctor's death in 1888, Arthur Cowper Ranyard took over editorship, then Harry Forbes Witherby after Ranyard's death.{{cite book|first=James|last=Mussel|editor-first1=Laurel|contribution=Knowledge (1881–1918)|editor-last1= Brake|editor-first2=Marysa|editor-last2= Demoor|title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA336|year=2009|publisher=Academia Press|isbn=978-90-382-1340-8|pages=335–336}}