Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar evolution, the exploding starts, the galaxies, quasars, pulsars, the possibilities of extraterrestrial life and relativity. _x000D_
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This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. _x000D_
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