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	Global Spiral :: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dawkins weaves a rainbow of colorful insights and information from the world of science which is as splendid as the arc in the sky.
		When Keats complained about unweaving the rainbow, the sensitive poet was merely referring metaphorically to the demolition that results from analyzing details.
		He may not have been familiar with spectroscopy (a consequence of the unweaving of the rainbow) and the enrichment it brought to astronomy and chemical analysis.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article2.asp?id=2949 (1297 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
		In the subsequent chapters he settles into a routine of 'unweaving' several 'rainbows' to show how nature can be more exciting when we understand it than when we simply write things off to supernatural causes or otherwise use ignorance as our guide through life.
		Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended?
		Far from it, says Dawkins - Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology.
	www.2think.org /rainbow.shtml (932 words)

	RevelationZ Magazine - Album Review - Frameshift - Unweaving The Rainbow
		Unweaving The Rainbow is an extremely complex and at times difficult album to grasp, but like these things often are, time and patience will be rewarded.
		The musical level is on all fronts of very high class, James’ vocals are a central focus point because the songs rely on them very much, but he certainly does a fantastic job I must say, all in all technicality is a general quality.
		Extremely experimental music that remains structured in a fascinating way, Unweaving The Rainbow is a welcome contribution to the art of progressiveness.
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	Unweaving the Rainbow -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Unweaving the Rainbow -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Unweaving the Rainbow (subtitled "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder") is a book by (Click link for more info and facts about Richard Dawkins) Richard Dawkins, published in 1998 discussing the relationship between science and arts from the perspective of a scientist.
		It is not surprising that Dawkins is a supporter of the (Click link for more info and facts about Bright) Brights movement as this book could be seen as a defense of the representative standpoints of this philosophy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/unweaving_the_rainbow.htm (146 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder [Book Review]
		The rainbow is a spectrum of light, and Dawkins explains how understanding this spectrum has enabled scientists to make remarkable discoveries.
		For example, decoding the spectra of light from stars allows astrophysicists to infer what stars are made of, a feat which one might have thought utterly impossible.
		He describes how the human brain is able to "unweave" the exceedingly complex patterns of sound vibrations that impinge upon our ears and interpret or "reweave" them.
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	Books \| There is poetry in science. It's just that most poets are deaf to its rhythm
		Unweaving the Rainbow is as lucid, beguiling and serious as Dawkins's readers now expect.
		Some of them may be surprised by his literary range, but then his starting point is to take on a poet and Dawkins, apart from having a lifelong affection for poetry, has always got to know his enemy.
		Unweaving the Rainbow is the product of a beguiling and fascinating mind and one generous enough to attempt to include all willing readers in its brilliantly informed enthusiasm.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3921667-99945,00.html (669 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
		"Unweaving the Rainbow reads very much like a l9th-century enlightenment tract, chastising the forces of darkness, cheering on the squads of light (...) a rather monochromatic, pollyanaish view of science." -
		"Unweaving the Rainbow is the product of a beguiling and fascinating mind and one generous enough to attempt to include all willing readers in its brilliantly informed enthusiasm." -
		Unweaving the Rainbow page at The World of Richard Dawkins, with links to reviews and other information
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/dawkinsr/unweaving.htm (738 words)

	Frameshift - Frontiers Records Showcase. Highlighting the best new melodic releases available.
		"Unweaving the Rainbow" features 80 minutes of modern progressive rock, influenced by Gentle Giant, Queen and Spock s Beard, based on the books on evolution by Richard Dawkins.
		The idea for FRAMESHIFT's Unweaving the Rainbow was broad in scope from the very beginning.
		FRAMESHIFT's Unweaving the Rainbow takes all the thematic depth and musical complexity of the finest progressive rock and gives it a fresh approach thanks to the skills of Pauly and LaBrie.
	www.melodicrock.com /showcase/frameshift.html (729 words)

	Amazon.com: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder: Books: Richard Dawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It does have very good vignettes of Science, from Newton's unweaving of the rainbow to those hedge sparrows, and it is obvious that Dawkins is also a connosieur of the romantics, particularly Keats and Shelly.
		Dawkin's Unweaving the Rainbow is a skillfully crafted book; his idea of the beauty of nature is romantic - in every sense of the word; and his knowledge of not only biology, physics and chemistry, but also litterature and philosophy is truly amazing.
		Unweaving the Rainbow is a good guide on the beauty of science.
	www.amazon.com /Unweaving-Rainbow-Science-Delusion-Appetite/dp/0618056734 (3232 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder Review and price
		He shows how the scientific "unweaving of rainbows" has always lead to other amazing and wonderful mysteries.
		Dawkins can be heavy handed at times, and Unweaving the Rainbow really felt more like a personal rant than a well-researched piece of writing.
		To Dawkins credit, there are some interesting chapters in Unweaving the Rainbow about light, sound, and, of course, genes and evolution.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Allen Lane Science): Books: Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard Dawkins has taken the title of his book from Keats, who believed that Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colours.
		And in Unweaving the Rainbow, he attempts to convince those who hold a similar view to Keats.
		Even Newton's unweaving of the rainbow made possible the science of spectroscopy, which enables us to determine the elements stars are made of.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Unweaving-Rainbow-Science-Delusion-Appetite/dp/071399214X (1703 words)

	Wired 6.12: Street Cred
		In Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, Dawkins sets out to defend the science - its method, its history, and its critical intellectual soul - from attackers on all fronts.
		The title is derived from John Keats, who once railed - inspired by a night of drinking with pals Charles Lamb and William Wordsworth - that science had destroyed poetry by "unweaving the rainbow" and reducing it to its prismatic colors.
		The rainbow is the product of millions of individual prisms, which create millions of rainbows, which we experience as we move in space.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/6.12/streetcred.html?pg=10 (407 words)

	RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website
		And in his book Unweaving the Rainbow, the brilliant Oxford University biologist Richard Dawkins professes that he is equally amazed at the poetry of the natural world.
		KA: In your book unweaving the rainbow you find and show us to great effect, all the various wonders of an almost mystical kind that are available to us in a scientific view of the world and I wonder why the title?
		Keats accused Newton of destroying the beauty of the rainbow and the purpose of my book, Unweaving the Rainbow, was to say quite the contrary.
	www.richarddawkins.net /article,66,The-Ancestors-Tale--Studio-360-Interview,Richard-Dawkins (1125 words)

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		After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism and human nature.
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		Now you unweave it, could you unweave it for us now?\par \par \b Richard Dawkins\b0 : The rainbow is a spectrum and Newton did it in a rather more simple way with a prism.
		So unweaving the rainbow....what Newton did, was to show that white light is a mixture of other lights.
		What we now know is tha the rainbow is only a tiny, tiny fragment of the whole electromagnetic spectrum, which extends all the way up to radio waves at the long wave end and down do X-rays at the short wave end.
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	Rainbow
		Dawkins tramples gleefully over such mystical nonsense in Unweaving the Rainbow, and he exhibits no patience for anyone who disagrees with him.
		The book is stuffed with literary quotations and allusions that Dawkins persists in pursuing in the text, but it all comes across as overkill to silence the anti-science arts lobby.
		It's the book's thesis, of course, that demystifying something as beautiful as a rainbow doesn't make it any less beautiful, but Dawkins brings his accustomed penchant for exhaustive rebuttal to bear on a debate that rests quite happily on the facts.
	www.keysound.com /html/rainbow.htm (432 words)

	The joy of science: A review of Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
		Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, published by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, £20, ISBN 0-713-99214-X
		In Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins sets out to show that science is not a cold dispassionate process but can appeal to the aesthetic senses as much as poetry or art.
		The theme of the poem was that, in seeking to explain natural phenomena, scientists rob the world of wonder.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jan1999/daw-j08.shtml (1795 words)

	ProgRock Records :: Products
		Instead, Unweaving The Rainbow transcends the sum of its parts to provide an eclectic, rocking experience that should satisfy even the most discriminating progressive rock listeners, one that needs to be heard to be believed.
		...Unweaving The Rainbow is a kick in the ass for prog rock fans, as it fairly wipes out what has become a traditional path for the genre's present day flag bearers (see Enchant, Vanden Plas, Threshold).
		I’m not going to give in to temptation and call Frameshift’s Unweaving the Rainbow, a new project with Dream Theater singer James LaBrie, the album LaBrie's main band should have released in lieu of the love-it-or-hate-it Train of Thought.
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		The theme and purpose of "Unweaving The Rainbow" becomes clear from the preface.
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	The Robot Rebellion of Richard Dawkins: Johnson, Phillip
		British biologist Richard Dawkins's latest book, Unweaving the Rainbow, is a set of chapters loosely connected around the theme of rebutting a poem by Keats, whose message was that "cold philosophy" spoils the charm of things like the rainbow by reducing them to physical causes.
		My pleasure in the rainbow is not spoiled by knowing how Newton explained the prism effect, nor is my wonder at the miracle of vision diminished by reading the very interesting things Dawkins has to say about how it is possible for us to recognize other people by their faces.
		I surmise that all the chatter about the charm of science in Unweaving the Rainbow is designed to deflect attention from the unattractive aspects of this philosophy by portraying its critics as know-nothing opponents of scientific investigation.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/pj_robotrebellion.htm (1764 words)

	American Scientist Online - Dawkins's Rainbow Reduces Science to Truth, Beauty--and Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From "unweaving the rainbow" we deduce not only the age and fate of the universe or the presence of planets in other solar systems but also the lengths of extinct mastodon penises (from Fourier analysis of fossil elephant urine tracks) and the three-dimensional structure of our internal organs (from magnetic resonance imaging).
		Unweaving the Rainbow reads very much like a 19th-century enlightenment tract, chastising the forces of darkness, cheering on the squads of light.
		He has written on environmental policy, bioethics, anthropology, racial theory and the "social construction of ignorance." He is working on two books, one on theories of human origins, the other on agates.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/15643;jsessionid=baafw3wjTT-YwB (1350 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins; Book Review (Skeptical Inquirer March 1999)
		His title is from Keats, who believed that Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors.
		Dawkins quickly lays that particular complaint to rest by showing how Newton's optics led to spectroscopy which led to measurement of emission and absorption line spectra and thereby to direct understanding of the nature and characteristics of stars-their size, luminosity, history, and future ("Barcodes of the Stars")-and then to our wider understanding of the cosmos.
		At the same time by learning about our own genetic and environmental heritage and the workings of our brains we can learn how to be aware of our own capacities for self-delusion.
	www.csicop.org /si/9903/dawkins.html (1255 words)

	Bats,Bugs & Biodiversity - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"Unweaving the Rainbow", a phrase from Keats, is both an apt and ironic title for Richard Dawkins's new book.
		Unweaving the Rainbow isn't poetry, but it's written with a poetic spirit that may change the way you look at the universe around you.
		Rick Sullivan, an ecologist and science writer, is Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Study at Grand Rapids Community College.
	www.cesmi.org /public/reviews/books/rainbow.html (459 words)

	Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins - Book ASIN 0618056734 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins - Book ASIN 0618056734
		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.
		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.
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	Richard Dawkins: Unweaving the Rainbow
		Newton took a prism to create an artificial rainbow, so revealing the coloured spectrum hidden in white light; at that moment, when the rainbow was properly understood, was its poetry diminushed forever?
		Richard Dawkins answers with a passionate 'No', not just for the rainbow but for all of nature.
		Keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are tempted by a similar view, towards the opposite conclusion.
	www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk /dawkins/writings/unweavingtherainbow.shtml (558 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Penguin Press Science): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism and human nature.
		Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours.
		He takes us from rainbows to barcodes to DNA in easy stages, explaining in graphic (but never tedious) detail just how nature can (and will) evolve all its wonders.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Unweaving-Rainbow-Science-Delusion-Appetite/dp/0140264086 (2807 words)

	Studio 360 - The Ancestor's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A few years ago Dawkins wrote a book call Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder.
		KA: In your book unweaving the rainbow you find and show us to great effect, all the various wonders of an almost mystical kind that are available to us in a scientific view of the world and I wonder why the title?
		Keats accused Newton of destroying the beauty of the rainbow and the purpose of my book, Unweaving the Rainbow, was to say quite the contrary.
	www.wnyc.org /studio360/commentary121804.html (838 words)

	Ecologist, The: Unweaving The Rainbow. - Review - book review
		His title, Unweaving the Rainbow, is taken from Keats's celebrated poem in which he claimed that Newton and his ilk destroyed for ever the poetry of the glistening hues of the rainbow.
		Rainbows, despite knowing about raindrops, wavelengths and refraction, are still beautiful to behold.
		But for all its reductionism, Unweaving the Rainbow, makes a good read.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_7_30/ai_66457063 (1080 words)

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