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Peter Dear

The Intelligibility of Nature

How Science Makes Sense of the World

254 pages, 6 halftones, 20 line drawings  5-1/4 x 8  © 2006
Series: science.culture

Cloth $27.50

ISBN: 9780226139487   Published August 2006

Paper $17.00

ISBN: 9780226139494   Published March 2008

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ISBN: 9780226139500

Peter Dear is professor of science and technology studies and history at Cornell University. He is the author of Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700 and Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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