The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world /
Peter Dear.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Science.culture .
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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Science--Methodology--History. Science--Philosophy--History. Reasoning--History. Philosophy of nature--History.