Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins

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

Richard Dawkins

352 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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