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355 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780547347356
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 ...
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355 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780547347356
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
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 ...