Unweaving the Rainbow

副标题: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

ISBN: 9780618056736

出版社: Mariner Books

出版年: 2000-4-5

页数: 336

定价: 129.00元

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.

作者简介

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins，全名Clinton Richard Dawkins，1941年3月26日－）是英國皇家科學院院士，牛津大學教授，著名科普作家，動物學家。

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