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352 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780618056736
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication date: 05 April 2000
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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352 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780618056736
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication date: 05 April 2000
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 ...