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作者:RichardDawkins
出版时间:2000-4-5
书籍简介:
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，1941— ），英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学首席西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”，演化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。
1976年出版的《自私的基因》是道金斯最重要的代表作，他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的幻觉，深刻影响了整整一个时代。
本书《解析彩虹》是道金斯向公众普及科学的第一部作品，由此他迈上了促进“公众理解科学”的漫漫长路。其他作品有《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上最伟大的表演》《魔鬼的牧师》《攀登不可能的山峰》《祖先的故事》等。
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译者简介
李虎，河北邢台人，毕业于北京大学，国家海洋局第三海洋研究所科技信息中心工程师，厦门市科普作家协会副秘书长。从事海洋科学、生物多样性等科学普及翻译工作多年，主要译著有《解析彩虹》《地球上最伟大的表演》《众病之王：癌症传》《物种起源》等。
