The intelligibility of nature [electronic resource] : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
By: Dear, Peter.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Science.culture: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xii, 242 p. : ill.Subject(s): Science -- Methodology -- History | Science -- Philosophy -- History | Reasoning -- History | Philosophy of nature -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 501 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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