... than the average physics tome. The book will be of interest to historians of astronomy and students of the philosophy of science, but it could be read by anyone with a reasonable level of scientific literacy. It is illustrated, though not profusely...
... discover it, appropriate it and make sense of it in their own way. This is effectively what the author, a philosophy academic, is attempting with this book. His “overarching argument”, he writes, “is that space science is uniquely epistemically and...
... analogue mission itself, relevant aspects of the space industry, her personal life and memories, and the philosophy of exploration.
... books, there is also an autobiographical element: the author’s father was a distinguished combat pilot and his parenting philosophy involved a number of “rites of passage”. The author admits that it took him more than a decade to realise that...