Charles Appleton
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Charles Edward Appleton (1841 – 1879) was an Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur.
He is best remember for founding the periodical The Academy in 1869; it was intended a forum for an intellectual and cultural revival in the German style. The purpose was to encourage an elite with "sound information and correct taste in intellectual matters".
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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- "Charles Appleton" The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Project Gutenberg (2004-05-14). Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
- Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals By G. N. Cantor, Sally Shuttleworth. Published 2004 by MIT Press. [1]
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