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

British Journal for the History of Science 2 (3):221-234 (1965)
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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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10.1017/s0007087400002211

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