About the book: 2020 / “Unweaving the Rainbow” is a book by the famous evolutionist scientist and gifted writer Richard Dawkins about... poetry in science. John Keats accused Newton of having destroyed its beauty by explaining the origin of the rainbow. Dawkins argues in his lucid and provocative style that Keats could not have been more wrong, and demonstrates how understanding science helps the human imagination and increases our wonder at the universe..