Anaximander
And the Nature of Science
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:23rd Feb '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£10.99(9781802063042)
Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions
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.
Translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780241635049
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 18mm
Weight: 242g
240 pages