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The Intelligibility of Nature. How Science Makes Sense of the World. By Peter Dear. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 254 pp. $27.50, £17.50. ISBN 9780226139487. Science.Culture.
In this consideration of the evolution of science, Dear emphasizes a tension between two distinct but frequently conflated ends: doing and knowing.
