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Frontispice des ''Principales Découvertes et Inventions'' par Adolphe Bitard (1880). Adolphe-Louis-Émile Bitard (24 February 1826 – early 1888) was a 19th-century French journalist and scientific educator. From age 17, he enlisted in the campaigns of

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and Italy. After the was voted, Bitard participated to several Parisian dailies, and then, from 1871, to science magazines such as ''La Revue de France'', ''Le Musée universel'' and ' which he established some weeks before he died. He created two other magazines, in 1878, and in 1881, then in 1887. In addition to popular science books, he left a biographical dictionary and several practical encyclopedias.

Main publications

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Sources

* Catherine Benedic, "Le Monde des vulgarisateurs"
''La science pour tous, sur la vulgarisation scientifique en France de 1850 à 1914''
Paris, Bibliothèque du conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 1990, (p. 41).

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