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

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

Richard Dawkins, Gabriela Deniz

337 pages • first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

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 Dawkins--Newton's unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poe...

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