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Diction and Dictionaries in the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge: an Aspect of the History of the Popularization of Science in Great Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

David Layton
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Extract

The concept of popularization, in the present context, implies the existence of a reading public interested in science, together with a corpus of scientific knowledge, part of which, in its range and complexity, was outside the limits of the general understanding.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , June 1965 , pp. 221 - 234
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1965

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