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The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world
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- Creator
- Peter Dear
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- Language
- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
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- xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226139487, 0226139484, 9786611959500, 0226139506, 1281959502
- OCLC
- ocn646784290, ocn436148271, ocm61479571, ocn781254552
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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