The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Reeks: | Science.culture.
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.