The intelligibility of nature [electronic resource] : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
Dear, Peter, 1958-
2006
Q175.32.R45 D43 2006eb
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Title The intelligibility of nature [electronic resource] : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
Author Dear, Peter, 1958-
ISBN 0226139484 (alk. paper)
9780226139487
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Language English
Description xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number Q175.32.R45 D43 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series Science.culture.
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Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality
The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton
A place for everything : the classification of the world
The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms
Design and disorder : the origin of species
Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines
How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe
Conclusion : making sense in science.

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