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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1 ...
Anaximander and the Nature of Science Carlo Rovelli (translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg) (Allen Lane) ASTRONOMY was conducted at Chinese government institutions for more than 20 centuries ...
Yes, Anaximander’s account of the origin of the cosmos resembles the modern Big Bang theory, but “it is important not to mistake this vague similarity for some mysterious foresight”.
Anaximander. By Carlo Rovelli. Translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead Books; 272 pages; $18. Allen Lane; £16.99. O f the three men usually credited with founding the disciplines of ...
Anaximander lost out to Aristotle in the running for Most Famous Ancient Greek Philosopher. That’s a shame, as he may have been the first person to come up with the idea of “animals evolving ...
According to Anaximander’s model, however, the stars go under the Earth. Once we can visualise this, it seems obvious. What’s so impressive about Anaximander is that he was willing to ‘redesign the ...