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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

by Richard Dawkins

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Did Newton unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton''s unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and... Read more
Did Newton unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton''s unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don''t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.
This is the book Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn''t), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. " Less

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File size8.25 X 5.5 X 0.83 in
Print pages352
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date April 1, 2000
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780618056736
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Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, atheist thinker, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of O...

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