![]() ![]() ![]() Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics and other bestsellers, reminds readers that until the scientific revolution, all cultures explained natural phenomena “solely in mythical and religious terms: as manifestations of incomprehensible forces attributed to divine beings.” Born in 610 B.C.E., 200 years before the golden age of Plato and Pericles, Anaximander, writes Rovelli, “succeeded in changing the old understanding of space, transforming the world from a closed box with the Heavens above and the Earth below to an open space in which Earth floats.” In reality, the old view persisted in the popular mind until a few centuries ago. A theoretical physicist examines an obscure Greek philosopher and maintains that he was the first modern scientific thinker. ![]()
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