ANAXIMANDER AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE


ANAXIMANDER AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE

Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a historian or as an expert in Greek philosophy, but as a scientist interested in the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in the critical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge.

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Author CARLO ROVELLI
ISBN 9780241635049
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Call Number 182 ROV 2023
Publication ALLEN LANE
Year 2023
Physical Desciption XIX, 209 PAGES ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS ; 22 CM
Subject ANAXIMANDER
PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS
PHILISOPHY, ANCIENT
COSMOLOGY, ANCIENT
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