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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241635049Number of pages: 240Weight: 242 gDimensions: 216 x 135 x 18 mm
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Bestselling physicist Carlo Rovelli argues in this enjoyable and provocative little book that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos Rovelli is a very good scientist and a very good writer. He explains some of the most conceptually difficult and densest areas of physics lightly and breezily. Here,he tells the story of an ancient thinker who had a revolutionary idea about the Earth's place in the cosmosAnaximander is a delight and so is this book As Rovelli's fans will expect,this book is excellent. It is never less than engaging,and enviably compendiousA celebration of the scientific spirit of inquiry and the remarkable achievements of one man more than 2,500 years agoA bold and persuasive case that this ancient Greek philosopher scientist was the founder of critical thinking This is seriously astounding. So lucid,so imaginative,so subtle,and so large in scope. It's like the best primer you can imagine for the non-scientist on why what you think you know about Ptolemy and Copernicus,or Popper and Kuhn,is not quite right
Carlo Rovelli
One of today's most exciting and dynamic science writers,Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and philosopher whose work primarily focuses on the physics of time and space. Currently head of the quantum gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique at Aix-Marseille University,Rovelli became a household name after publishing his first books,Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Reality Is Not What It Seems,which became international bestsellers. Like Stephen Hawking before him,Rovelli excels at making complex ideas accessible and inspiring;'I try to write at several levels,'he explains,'but I keep the person who knows nothing in my mind'. His latest book is 2018's The Order of Time.
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