The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

This deceptively simple yet revolutionary insight was made by Greek philosopher Anaximander in the 6th century BCE, and is the focus of the latest book by the prolific theoretical physicist Carlo ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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.

A physicist introduces Anaximander, who in the sixth century B.C. paved the way for astronomy, physics, geography, meteorology and biology.

Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli addresses this in Anaximander and the Nature of Science, his first book, released in French in… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also ...