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The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science throughtherevolutionaryideas ofthe Greek philosopher Anaximander

Over two millennia ago the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way forcosmology physics geography meteorology and biology setting in motion a new way of seeing the world His legacy includesthe revolutionary ideasthat the Earth floats in a voidthat animals evolved that the world can be understood innatural rather than supernatural terms and that universal laws govern all phenomena Heintroduced a new mode of rational thinkingwith 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 Anaximanders overlookedinfluence 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 scientistinterested in the deep natureofscientific thinking which Rovelli locates in thecritical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge

This audiobook ncludes a downloadable PDF of maps landmarks artifacts and some of the earliest antiquities found and documented from ancient times