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Author Dear, Peter, 1958-

Title The intelligibility of nature [electronic resource] : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Description xii, 242 p. : ill.
Series Science.culture
Science.culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Science -- Methodology -- History.
Science -- Philosophy -- History.
Reasoning -- History.
Philosophy of nature -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226139484 (alk. paper)
9780226139487

 
    
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