The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.

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.