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

Door: Richard Dawkins

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• ISBN: 9780395883822
• Boekreferentie: Filosofie
• Uitgever: Houghton Mifflin
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Hardcover, Goed, Dit is een gebonden editie met stofomslag uit 1998.
• Extra informatie: [1st ed.]. Original hardcover with dust jacket. With bibliography and index. 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 often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mystery. (The Keats who
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