The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World - science.culture - Peter Dear - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226139494 - 2008
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The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World - science.culture

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Considers how science as such has evolved and positioned itself. This book reveals how the two principles of craft and understanding became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. It is useful for aficionados and historians of science.


254 pages, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released 2008
ISBN13 9780226139494
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 254
Dimensions 203 × 139 × 15 mm   ·   314 g
Language English  

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