The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
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TextSeries: Science.culturePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xii, 232 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0226139484 (alk. paper)
- 9780226139487 (alk. paper)
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- Q 175.32 D285i 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality -- 1. The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton -- 2. A place for everything : the classification of the world -- 3. The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms -- 4. Design and disorder : the origin of species -- 5. Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines -- 6. How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe -- Conclusion : making sense in science -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay -- Index.
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