Dear, Peter, <br/><br/>
The intelligibility of nature :  how science makes sense of the world / 
Peter Dear. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2006. 
 - 242 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M10 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226139484 9780226139487 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Methodology--History.<br/>Science--Philosophy--History.<br/>Reasoning--History.<br/>Philosophy of nature--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q175  / D285 I 2006