The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world / [electronic resource] :
Peter Dear.
- University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xii, 242 p.) : ill.
- Science.culture .
- Science.culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
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.