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Anaximander - Carlo Rovelli

Anaximander

And the Nature of Science

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2023
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-1-80206-249-6 (ISBN)
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The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science by exploring the revolutionary ideas of one of its great forefathers: the Greek philosopher Anaximander

Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. Anaximander's legacy includes the revolutionary idea that the earth floats in a void, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, that animals evolved, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and to the progress of knowledge.

In this elegant work, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked legacy to modern science. He examines Anaximander as a scientist interested in shedding light on the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in his rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. Now widely available in English for the first time, Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge.

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-three languages.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.2.2023
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-80206-249-1 / 1802062491
ISBN-13 978-1-80206-249-6 / 9781802062496
Zustand Neuware
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