{"product_id":"the-intelligibility-of-nature-how-science-makes-sense-of-the-world-paperback","title":"The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Dear\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Intelligibility of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and how it has marshaled itself to make sense of the world. His 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 ancient Greeks developed this distinction of value between craft on the one hand and understanding on the other, and according to Dear, that distinction has survived to shape attitudes toward science ever since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTeasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science--mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory--Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinely nuanced and elegantly conceived, \u003ci\u003eThe Intelligibility of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e will be essential reading for aficionados and historians of science alike.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Dear\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of science and technology studies and history at Cornell University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039570792528,"sku":"9780226139494","price":42.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/ZmJyZWdQaTFiSGpOaXBmOGFEVGtVdz09.webp?v=1771841593","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-intelligibility-of-nature-how-science-makes-sense-of-the-world-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}