Physics on the Fringe, Margaret Wertheim. Primarily about the contemporary science cranks, but has a great chapter on the history of the subject and goes into a

Physics on the Fringe, Margaret Wertheim. Primarily about the contemporary science cranks, but has a great chapter on the history of the subject and goes into a similar work from 130 years ago by the logician Augustus DeMorgan called A Budget of Paradoxes.