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
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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