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Was There Really a Popular Science “Boom”?

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Bruce V. Lewenstein
Public Education Officer, Doctoral Candidate
Center for History of Chemistry
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6310

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