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The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world /
Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Science.culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe. In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226139500 0226139506 0226139484 9780226139487 1281959502 9781281959508 9786611959500 6611959505 |