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Unweaving the Rainbow

Richard Dawkins

  • Bindwijze: E-book
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Wetenschap & Natuur
  • ISBN: 9780547347356
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:E-book
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:05 april 2000
Aantal pagina's:352
Ebook Formaat:Adobe ePub
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Hoofdauteur: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 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.