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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

By Carlo Rovelli

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Translation of: Che cos'áe la scienza: la rivoluzione di Anassimandro, and published in French as La naissance de la pensâee scientifique: Anaximandre de Milet, and also published as Anaximandre de Milet, ou la naissance de la pensâee scientifique; previously published in English as The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy.

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Publisher: Riverhead Books.
Publish Date: 02/28/2023
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780593542361
ISBN-10: 0593542363
Language: English

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The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a historian or as an expert in Greek philosophy, but as a scientist interested in the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in the critical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge.

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Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the United States and currently directs the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France.

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