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Unweaving the Rainbow Makes it More Beautiful
Newton's unweaving of the rainbow led on to spectroscopy, which has
proved the key to much of what we know today about the cosmos. And
the heart of any poet worthy of the title Romantic could not fail to leap
up if he beheld the universe of Einstein, Hubble and Hawking. We read
its nature through Fraunhofer lines - 'Barcodes in the Stars' - and their
shifts along the spectrum. The image of barcodes carries us on to the
very different, but equally intriguing, realms of sound ('Barcodes on the
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Colin Tudge Describes Knowledge Increasing Wonder and Beauty
Science is an aesthetic and spiritual pursuit. The more that is revealed, the more wondrous nature becomes. The more we know about living creatures, the more deeply we can engage with them. That is the appetite, as Hamlet said, that grows from what it feeds on.Folksonomies: ionianenchantment science nature
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