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

Main Author: Dear, Peter Robert.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
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245 1 4 |a The intelligibility of nature :  |b how science makes sense of the world /  |c Peter Dear. 
260 1 4 |a Chicago :  |b University of Chicago Press,  |c c2006. 
300 1 4 |a xii, 242 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 21 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index. 
505 1 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. 
650 1 4 |a Science  |x Methodology  |x History. 
650 1 4 |a Science  |x Philosophy  |x History 
650 1 4 |a Reasoning  |x History. 
650 1 4 |a Philosophy of nature  |x History 
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