Author: Dear, Peter.
Title: The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World [Science. Culture].
Description: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2006. 1st ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos & figures, minor edgewear jacket, minimal foxing edges. 242 pp. This fascinating book is about the important relationship between instrumentalism and realism in the sciences from 1600 to 1950. The author's 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 illustrations throughout the book help to make this an interesting book for anyone wanting to learn about the nature of science. ISBN: 0226139484

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