First impression

  Human civilizations have always believed that the world consisted of the Heavens above and the Earth below. But on the question: what kept the Earth from falling? Different cultures of the world came up with different versions. It was the Greek Anaximander; lived twenty-six centuries ago in Miletus, who understood that beneath the Earth ‘there is the same sky that we see over our heads’.

  This book is a witness to how Anaximander paved the way for physics, geography, meteorology and biology, the book along the way explains how the nature of scientific thinking evolved. Rovelli discusses the social, cultural and political implication of the train of thought that Anaximander had set in motion in ancient Greece and the centuries that followed, going beyond the ancient world to the relevance of scientific method to the modern-day in discussing the idea and legacy of Anaximander. In the book Rovelli recognizes and celebrates....