The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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2006.
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N501/390
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English
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xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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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...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Illinois
Date Published
2006.
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"Teasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science - mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory - Dear reveals how the two...
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The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.
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Science.culture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N501/390
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74VKKMewDLWd
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0226139484 (alk. paper)
9780226139487 (alk. paper)
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501
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991021798079702626
