TY - BOOK AU - Dear,Peter TI - The intelligibility of nature: how science makes sense of the world SN - 9780226139487 AV - Q175.32.R45 D43 2006 U1 - 501 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Science KW - Methodology KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Reasoning KW - Philosophy of nature N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005026032.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2005026032-d.html ER -