The intelligibility of nature [electronic resource] : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
Material type: TextSeries: Science.culturePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 242 p.) : illISBN:- 9780226139500 (electronic bk.)
- 0226139506 (electronic bk.)
- 501 22
- Q175.32.R45 D43 2006eb
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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.
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