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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Dawkins
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1998-12-01
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 0395883822
- Book Title
- Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Edition
- 1
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Science
- Topic
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Cosmology, History & Surveys / Modern
- Item Weight
- 21.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395883822
ISBN-13
9780395883822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
494208
Product Key Features
Edition
1
Book Title
Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Cosmology, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Philosophy, Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-040879
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Like an extended stay on a brain health-farm . . .You come out feeling lean, tuned and enormously more intelligent., "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, 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.
Dewey Decimal
501
Edition Description
Teacher's edition
Synopsis
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 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."
LC Classification Number
Q175.D33 1998
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