Unweaving the Rainbow -Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Unweaving the Rainbow -Science, Delusion and the Appetite for WonderRichard Dawkins | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 3999-33-36 | 363 pages | English | EPUBDid 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 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 mystery. (The Keats who spoke of "unweaving the rainbow" was a very young man, Dawkins reminds us.) With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made his books worldwide bestsellers, Dawkins addresses 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. This is the book that Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and what it isn't), a tribute to science "not because it is useful (though it is), but but because it is uplifting, in the same way as the best poetry is uplifting."Downloadhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/3693633336/sharebookfree.com_3193996913.rar**** No Mirrors below, please! Follow Rules! ****
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