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This podcast originally aired in 2013.

This is the Nature Pastcast, each month raiding Nature's archive and looking at key moments in science.

In this show, we rewind to Victorian London to hear about the very first issue of nature.

Nature, a weekly illustrated journal of science.

Fourth November 1869.

Price four pence.

I find nature interesting because it is now such an iconic journal and I think it was not at all iconic in

its starting. Nature was initially intended quite differently from the publication it became.

The people who started it had great ambitions,

but they didn't foresee what science would become.

To the solid ground of nature trusts the mind which builds for I.

Wordsworth.

I'm Ruth Barton, and I'm a historian of science.

My major area of interest is science in Victorian England.

Nature was published in London on the 4th of November, 1869.

Someone who went back to look at nature, I think, would be surprised because it is so different.

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