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Cargando... Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1999 original; edición 2000)por Richard Dawkins
Información de la obraDestejiendo el arco iris por Richard Dawkins (1999)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cuando Newton, con un simple prisma, descompuso la luz blanca en el espectro de colores que se oculta tras ella, ¿despojó de lirismo al arco iris, como le recriminó Keats en un célebre poema? ¿Acaso la ciencia, ese peculiar modo de entender el mundo, priva al universo de todo sentido poético? Richard Dawkins demuestra que la ciencia –desde la astronomía hasta la genética, pasando por el lenguaje y la realidad virtual– también entraña belleza, y que el descubrimiento de los mecanismos que rigen los fenómenos naturales no sólo no destruye su poesía sino que la ensalza, revelándonos aspectos sorprendentes que de ninguna otra manera podríamos apreciar o imaginar.
So the first thing to be said about Richard Dawkins's ''Unweaving the Rainbow,'' which argues that scientific fact is both intellectually and esthetically more pleasing than pseudoscientific fantasy, is that he is to be congratulated for his courage in attempting it. Does he avoid all the pitfalls that threaten those who tilt at the windmills of antiscience? Well, no. Too often he sounds like Prof. Eat Your Peas, and he can't resist preaching to the choir. But he's a good enough writer to get away -- sometimes -- with ignoring the old dictum that no good deed goes unpunished. Pertenece a las series editorialesListas de sobresalientes
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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