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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Science.culturePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xii, 242 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 501 22
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  • Q175.32.R45 D43 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.

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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