📗 Libro en inglés UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW

A dazzling passionate polemic against anti science movements of all kinds Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours In this illuminating and provocative book Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world He argues that mysteries do not lose their poetry because they are solved the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle uncovering even deeper mysteries Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality combining them in a landmark statement on the human appetite for wonder Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike