Anaximander - And the Nature of Science

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens above and the Earth below. Then, on the Ionian coast, a Greek philosopher named Anaximander set in motion a revolution. He not only conceived that the Earth floats in space, but also that animals evolve, that storms and earthquakes are natural, not supernatural, that the world can be mapped and, above all, that progress is made by the endless search for knowledge.

Carlo Rovelli''s first book, now widely available in English, tells the origin story of scientific thinking: our rebellious ability to reimagine the world, again and again.<>

Product details

• Authors: Carlo Rovelli, Rovelli Carlo
• Assisted by: Marion Lignana Rosenberg (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781802063042
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-304-2
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, popular science, Ancient Greece, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, geometry, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Astronomy, space & time, Biography: science, technology & medicine, History of mathematics, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy