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Q175.32.R45D43 2006
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TITLE:
The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
AUTHOR:
Dear, Peter Robert.
SERIES:
Science.culture
PUBLISHED:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
DESCRIPTION:
xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
NOTES:
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.
SUBJECT:
Science--Methodology--History.
SUBJECT:
Science--Philosophy--History.
SUBJECT:
Reasoning--History.
SUBJECT:
Philosophy of nature--History.
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