The documentary evidence for Anaximander's views. Introduction to the doxography -- Arrangement of the doxography -- The doxography : texts and commentary -- The cosmology of Anaximander. I. The ...

Nietzsche found Anaximander troubling. In Basel in the 1870s, struggling to balance his duties as a lecturer in classics with his philosophical writing, Nietzsche described Anaximander as a ‘true ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Non-Fiction news every morning. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus redefined our place in the cosmos. The mathematician and ...

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.

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 from ...

Anaximander by Carlo Rovelli review: meet the forgotten father of science Born two and a half millennia ago, the Greek philosopher dared to ask: what if the Earth is floating in space? 4/5 ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who specialises in quantum gravity. The range of his published works includes what might be called popular science — explaining the wonders of science in ...

Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1 Theoretical physicist Rovelli (There Are Places in the World Where Rules ...

He was essentially the first metaphysician who argued that the origin of everything is “boundless.” He also drew a map of the world and was the first geographer. Anaximander is one of the most popular ...