Dear, Peter Robert. <br/><br/>
The intelligibility of nature :  how science makes sense of the world / 
Peter Dear. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2006. 
 - xii, 232 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
 - Science.culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index. 
<br/><br/> List of illustrations --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality --  mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton --  place for everything : the classification of the world --  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 --  Notes --  Bibliographical essay --  Index.  1. The  2. A  3. The  4.  5.  6. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226139484 (alk. paper) 9780226139487 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005026032 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA627084  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013414327  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Methodology--History.<br/>Science--Philosophy--History.<br/>Reasoning--History.<br/>Philosophy of nature--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q 175.32  / D285i 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>501