Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Science in the Soul. If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this (The Wall Street Journal). Did Sir Isaac Newton unweave the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key too 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 pr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-547-34735-6
- EAN: 9780547347356
- Produktnummer: 31919881
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'182 KB
Über den Autor
RICHARD DAWKINS taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil's Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.
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