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Author / Creator:Barrow, John D., 1952-2020, author.
Imprint:Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1988.
Description:xiv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13225753
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ISBN:0198519796
9780198519799
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-385).
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:Presents a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of the evolving concept of laws of Nature. The author traces the gradual development of our concept of what law of Nature are and how we come to know them. The scientific and mathematical concepts are discussed in a serious but non-technical style within a historical context.
Other form:Online version: Barrow, John D., 1952- World within the world. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1988
Online version: Barrow, John D., 1952- World within the world. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1988

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