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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dear, Peter, 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:	Science.culture.
Subjects:	Science > Methodology > History. Science > Philosophy > History. Reasoning > History. Philosophy of nature > History.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.