The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world /

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Glavni autor: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Serija:Science.culture.
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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 : the aether and Victorian machines
  • How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe
  • Conclusion : making sense in science.