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

Author: Richard Dawkins Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Evolution, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780618056736 0618056734

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 acclaimed scientist Richard 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 mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, 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 of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn't), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. Similar books: The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins Undeniable by Bill Nye Human Universe by Brian Cox The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan The Fifth Miracle by Paul Davies River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer How to Fossilize Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark