Title The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Science.culture
	Science.culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Science -- Methodology -- History.
	Science -- Methodology.
	History.
	Science -- Philosophy -- History.
	Science -- Philosophy.
	Reasoning -- History.
	Reasoning.
	Philosophy of nature -- History.
	Philosophy of nature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Dear, Peter, 1958- Intelligibility of nature. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 (DLC) 2005026032
ISBN	9780226139500 (electronic book)
	0226139506 (electronic book)
	0226139484 (alkaline paper)
	9780226139487