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.<>

Relazione

Bestselling physicist Carlo Rovelli argues in this enjoyable and provocative little book that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos Tim Adams Observer

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carlo Rovelli, Rovelli Carlo
• Con la collaborazione di: Marion Lignana Rosenberg (Traduzione)
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781802063042
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-304-2
• Pagine: 209
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; 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