There were too many scientific journals in the late nineteenth century like the magazine Nature. The well-known periodical was initiated during that time. It is shown that Nature succeeded and is the seldom survived scientific periodical. However, by analyzing historical literature, it shows that some other related magazines are still memoriable such as Knowledge. Both of the content and the objectives it represented embodied the general public’s needs and interests and thus more popular than the Nature in that time. The former had accompanied and confronted with latter until it died out.

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