by Richard Dawkins · ALLEN LANE · tapa dura · ISBN 9780713992144
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«Unweaving the Rainbow» is Richard Dawkins's popular science essay, published by Allen Lane in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Dawkins responds to Keats's lament for the rainbow «undone» by Newton: explaining a mystery does not destroy its beauty, but often reveals a deeper one. He ranges across astronomy, genetics, language and virtual reality to show that science is a source of wonder, not disenchantment.
Full subtitle: «Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder». First edition, published on October 29, 1998, in the Allen Lane Science series.
For those interested in evolution, philosophy of science and the defense of reason against superstition.
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995, he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
