LEADER 04586nam 22007214a 450 001 9910811770803321 005 20240418131609.0 010 $a1-281-95950-2 010 $a9786611959500 010 $a0-226-13950-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226139500 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578942 035 $a(EBL)408543 035 $a(OCoLC)436148271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000180686 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184441 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000180686 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168119 035 $a(PQKB)11664802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408543 035 $a(DE-B1597)524775 035 $a(OCoLC)781254552 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226139500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266006 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195950 035 $a(OCoLC)646784290 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578942 100 $a20050908d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe intelligibility of nature $ehow science makes sense of the world /$fPeter Dear 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 1 $aScience.culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-13948-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThroughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe. In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and how it has marshaled itself to make sense of the world. His intellectual journey begins with a crucial observation: that the enterprise of science is, and has been, directed toward two distinct but frequently conflated ends-doing and knowing. The ancient Greeks developed this distinction of value between craft on the one hand and understanding on the other, and according to Dear, that distinction has survived to shape attitudes toward science ever since. Teasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science-mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory-Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, The Intelligibility of Nature will be essential reading for aficionados and historians of science alike. 410 0$aScience.culture. 606 $aScience$xMethodology$xHistory 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aReasoning$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of nature$xHistory 610 $anatural world, science, scientist, scientific, academic, scholarly, technology, western, history, historical, authority, prestige, knowledge, galileo, newton, darwin, einstein, philosophy, philosophical, evolution, intellectual, greek, quantum theory, methodology, atoms, species, victorian, universe, origin, design, college, university, textbook. 615 0$aScience$xMethodology$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 0$aReasoning$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature$xHistory. 676 $a501 700 $aDear$b Peter$f1958-$0887026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811770803321 996 $aThe intelligibility of nature$93963874 997 $aUNINA