The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
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TextSeries: Science.culturePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780226139487
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- Q175.32.R45 D43 2006
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| 501.1 DAR Evolution of man and society | 501:1 DAV God and the new physics / | 501;1 DAW Outgrowing God : | 501:1 DEA The intelligibility of nature : | 501:1 d'ES In search of reality / | 501.1 DRE Symbol sourcebook; | 501:1 DRI Mathematical undecidability, quantum nonlocality, and the question of the existence of God / |
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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