One of the main problems of the genesis of science is the problem of the continuity of science of various eras, ancient and modern." In essence, no serious historian of science can completely bypass this problem. It covers a number of more particular questions: "What is meant by the term continuity in the history of science - the continuity of fundamental "explicit" ideas or "implicit" methods? Research goals or the subject of science? What role do "difference factors" play in this - socio-cultural contexts of various eras - Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the New Age?" The purpose of this collection is to show the Soviet reader how the issue of continuity is being resolved within the framework of the problem of the formation of science, as well as a number of related issues in foreign historical and scientific literature. The collection is intended for science scientists, philosophers, historians of science.