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The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
LIBRA Q175.32.R45 D43 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dear, Peter Robert.
- Series:
- Science.culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Methodology--History.
- Science.
- Science--Methodology.
- History.
- Science--Philosophy--History.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Reasoning--History.
- Reasoning.
- Philosophy of nature--History.
- Philosophy of nature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226139484
- OCLC:
- 61479571
- Publisher Number:
- 9780226139487
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