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"Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in 
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>I've hunted unsuccessfully for a book on "The Scientific Method", but have
>come to the conclusion that either SM is esoteric and therefore confined to
>laboratories, or that it is so obvious that no books need be published about
>it.
>Yet a good book on the subject, especially for the layman, would be an ideal
>way of advancing interest in science generally.
>Most people might have a vague idea that SM is empirical, experimental, and
>inductive, but don't know much more than that.
>===============================================

All books I have in my library, all worth reading. Most are philosophical 
texts but have great sections on scientific method.

Brown, S., Fauvel, J., & Finnegan, R. (1981). Conceptions of inquiry. London: 
Methuen.

Chalmers, A.F. (1976). What is this thing called science? St. Lucia: 
University of Queensland Press.

Hospers, J. (1990). An introduction to philosophical analysis. London: 
Routledge.

Passmore, J. (1994). A Hundred Years of Philosophy. London: Penguin.
Popper, K.R. & Harre, R. (1970). Problems of Scientific Revolution. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press.

Barnes, J. (1995). The Cambridge companion to Aristotle. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press.