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 ...

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”.

In Anaximander, first published in French in 2009 and now translated into English by Marion Lignana Rosenberg, Carlo Rovelli argues that Anaximander was the world’s first scientist. He doesn’t spend ...

He is, in short, Rovelli’s hero, and Anaximander and the Nature of Science sets out to show how important he was. The interest here, though, is less biographical than historical and philosophical.

Wondrous as this was, it was the reaction of the second man, Thales’s fellow citizen, Anaximander, 11 years his junior that, Rovelli argues, changed the world. Anaximander assimilated Thales’s ideas, ...

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 ...

Ancient philosopher Anaximander's discoveries about rain, wind and the cosmos may make him the true force behind modern science, argues physicist Carlo Rovelli in his newly republished first book ...

MR. JACOBS has written a very readable little book. The historical aspect of geographical discovery is interestingly dealt with, and many subjects not usually included in books of geography are ...