Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science : The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of st Andrews 1976 (Boston Studies in the Philoso

Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from Antiquity to the present day, serve to widen and to deepen the understanding of every reader (whether a historian of science or not) with a desire to learn more about the realities of the scientific pursuit.