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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Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for...
Язык: русский
Год: 2006
Статус: Закончена
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Сборник посвящается юбилею видного лингвиста, лексикографа, основателя уральской семантической школы, почётного работника высшего...
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The most accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation in the world, as rendered by two of today’s leading scientists.
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