Will I love Anaximander?

I find Carlo Rovelli’s explanations of the sort of brain-mangling physics that usually seems beyond us non-mathematicians completely compelling.

In Anaximander, Rovelli tells the story of his hero, a man who figured out in 600 BCE that the earth was a physical body somehow floating in space. But it’s really the story of *how* Anaximander thought, not what he thought: he invented the scientific method – accretive, patient and skeptical.

Rovelli’s discussion of what that has meant since Anaximander, and what it means now, is just thrilling; and rather than being dry and abstract it’s full of historical curiosities… show more.