This book is a kind of unique phenomenon among a large number of monographs and collections devoted to the so-called new methods in geography. Its author, a former lecturer at Cambridge University, now working in the United States, tried to approach the issues of the methodology of modern geography from a somewhat extravagant position - the position of a person who allegedly does not clearly understand the principles of this methodology. This technique of expounding the theoretical foundations of geography, its mathematical apparatus, allowed him to achieve ease in conversation with the reader, so necessary for those who are just being introduced to the knowledge of complex innovations in the methodology of science, mainly descriptive until recently. It is not for nothing that in England and the USA Harvey's book is used as a textbook, highly appreciated by geography teachers. However, the content of the book goes far beyond geography itself in the field of methodology of science in general, and from this point of view is of significant interest to scientists of all profiles.