The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world - Dear, Peter Robert (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
Keywords: Science -- Methodology -- History; Science -- Philosophy -- History; Reasoning -- History; Philosophy of nature -- History