Books in the Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science series

This volume discusses many aspects of ESP. The general theme is that the phenomena is very valid and can no longer be ignored.

Deals with issues of bureaucracy in science threatening its creativity and the failure of industry to recruit the best graduates, as well as what attracts people to study science.

The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. This book correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution.

This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology's self-understanding. The author proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying detailed attention to questions about the nature of theory, explanation and demonstration.

The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. This book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, discoveries in the solar system, stellar evolution, the exploding starts, the galaxies, quasars, and pulsars.

Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This book discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines.