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

By Richard Dawkins

Book information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2000
ISBN
0618056734, 9780618056736
LCC
Q175 .D33 1998
Google Books ID
ZudTchiioUoC
Open Library ID
OL19292027M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1505878 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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