The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / / Peter Dear.
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| Superior document: | Science.culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science.culture.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 242 p. :; ill. |
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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.