
%0 Journal Article
%A Bush, Martin 
%T The Proctor-Parkes Incident: Politics, Protestants and Popular Astronomy in Australia in 1880
%J Historical Records of Australian Science
%D 2017/05/08
%V 28
%N 1
%P 26-36
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HR17001
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR17001 
%X Henry Parkes' intervention to placate the Sabbatarian movement and prevent British astronomer Richard Proctor from delivering an astronomical lecture on Sunday 5 September 1880 created a major controversy in the Australian colonies. Controversy had been central to much of Proctor's success, and in this case drew on a long-standing connection between astronomy and religion. An examination of the Proctor-Parkes incident shows how popular science works in culture by drawing on and sustaining the analogical connections between scientific ideas and broader cultural concerns. 
