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The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics
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376 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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December 31, 2025
"Young's theory of the rainbow shed an intriguing new light on the old problem of multiple rainbows, for it showed that, for each of the potentially infinitely many orders of bows, infinitely man arcs are possible. Such a magnificent conception of the double infinitude of bows should stir the soul of every poet who mistakenly believes that science has taken the romance out of the story of the rainbow." (286-7)
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