Because of the specialty of the contents of popular science books, their authors need have background knowledge of science and technology, to be trained for scientific research. Sometimes they are working in field of scientific research. However, the experience of practice in science may bring some dogmatic ways related to scientific research in their way of thinking and writing habits. General description of the way of scientific research and the way of popularization of science is given, three different levels for good popular science books, and science books with analysis of classical and typical popular science works, studies on the way of thinking about popularization of science is made.

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