The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world /

Main Author: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:Science.culture
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300 1 4 |a xii, 242 p. :  |b ill. 
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504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index. 
505 0 4 |a 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. 
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