Anaximander
Book description
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science by exploring the revolutionary ideas of one of its great forefathers: the Greek philosopher Anaximander
Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,…
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I find Carlo Rovelli’s explanations of the sort of brain-mangling physics that usually seems beyond us non-mathematicians completely compelling.
In Anaximander, Rovelli tells the story of his hero, a man who figured out in 600 BCE that the earth was a physical body somehow floating in space. But it’s really the story of *how* Anaximander thought, not what he thought: he invented the scientific method – accretive, patient and skeptical.
Rovelli’s discussion of what that has meant since Anaximander, and what it means now, is just thrilling; and rather than being dry and abstract it’s full of historical curiosities…
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