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Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder

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An edition of Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)

Unweaving the Rainbow

Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder

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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 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 is often more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mystery.

Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
352

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Cover of: Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow
April 6, 2006, Penguin
Cover of: Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
5 April 2000, Mariner
Hardcover in English - 1st Mariner books ed.
Cover of: Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow
September 30, 1999, Penguin Books Ltd, Gardners Books
in English
Cover of: Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder
1 December 1998, Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
29 October 1998, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-323) and index.

Published in
Boston
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
501
Library of Congress
Q175 .D33 1998, Q175.D33 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 336 p. ;
Number of pages
352
Dimensions
9.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL378789M
Internet Archive
unweavingrainbow00dawk_028
ISBN 10
0395883822
ISBN 13
9780395883822
LCCN
98040879
OCLC/WorldCat
98040879, 39922946
Library Thing
28555
Goodreads
933598

Excerpts

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.
added by Robin Lionheart.

from Preface

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