A physicist introduces Anaximander, who in the sixth century B.C. paved the way for astronomy, physics, geography, meteorology and biology. Westholme Publishing, 2011, 209 p., $24.95 ...

Born in the Greek city of Miletus in 610 B.C.E., Anaximander investigated the nature of the physical universe, treating physical processes, such as the hydrological cycle and thunder, as separate ...

Anaximander, Rovelli contends, generated the “first great conceptual revolution” in science by proposing naturalistic explanations of the universe that refuted common accounts relying on gods ...

O f the three men usually credited with founding the disciplines of philosophy and natural science, Anaximander comes second, sandwiched between his teacher, Thales, and his student, Anaximenes.

In discussing how Anaximander paved the way for scientific knowledge, I highlighted a certain number of aspects of science itself. Now I shall make these observations more explicit.

The Hindu Science Quiz: On Anaximander, ‘the first scientist’ Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli calls him the first scientist. He has also been referred variously as the ‘Father of Cosmology ...

Anaximander and the Nature of Science, however, is not one of those books. It is not a scientific work but rather, a tribute to science.

Rovelli’s first book, now available in English for the first time, tells the origin story of scientific thinking and the little-known life of pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander.