Nicholas Maxwell, The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, cloth £35. ISBN: 0 19 823776 6 [Book Review]

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4):907-911 (2000)
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