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

SKU: 849103678_2

Brand: Mariner Books

Product Description

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...