The intelligibility of nature
Subtitle: how science makes sense of the world
By: Peter Dear.
Series: Science.culture
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Science -- Methodology -- History; Science -- Philosophy -- History; Reasoning -- History; Philosophy of nature -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality; title: The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton; title: A place for everything : the classification of the world; title: The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms; title: Design and disorder : the origin of species; title: Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines; title: How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe; title: Conclusion : making sense in science.