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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - Richard Dawkins
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - Richard Dawkins
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Short Description
Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this book, the author argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken and shows how an understanding of science in fact inspires the human imagination and enhances our wonder of the world.
Full bibliographic data for Unweaving the Rainbow
- Title
- Unweaving the Rainbow
- Subtitle
- Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
- Authors and contributors
- By (author) Richard Dawkins
- Physical properties
- Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight: 257 g - Audience
- General/trade
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- ISBN 13: 9780141026183
ISBN 10: 0141026189 - Classifications
- Dewey:501
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T8.0
BICMainSubject:PDZ
BISAC category code:SCI075000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint name
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 06 April 2006
- Publication City/Country
- London/GB
- Biographical note
- In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (Penguin, 1988) and CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (Penguin, 1996).
- Review quote
- "A spellbinding storyteller." The New York Times "Brilliance and wit." The New Yorker "An extended rebuttal - not so much by argument as by radiant example - of perennial anti-science convictions. Few among us are better qualified for the job. If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this." The Wall Street Journal "Like an extended stay on a brain health-farm . . .You come out feeling lean, tuned and enormously more intelligent." The Times of London