Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique theorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-three languages.
Bestselling physicist Carlo Rovelli argues in this enjoyable and
provocative little book that a little-known Greek philosopher
invented the idea of the cosmos
*Observer*
Carlo Rovelli’s Anaximander is a knockout: there’s nobody like
Rovelli for bridging the Two Cultures, and I was enlarged by his
lucid, optimistic account, full of fascinating historical nuggets,
of what scientists do and why it’s exciting
*TLS , Best Books of the Year*
Rovelli is a very good scientist and a very good writer. He
explains some of the most conceptually difficult and densest areas
of physics lightly and breezily. Here, he tells the story of an
ancient thinker who had a revolutionary idea about the Earth's
place in the cosmos
*The Times*
Anaximander is a delight and so is this book
*Sunday Times*
As Rovelli's fans will expect, this book is excellent. It is never
less than engaging, and enviably compendious
*The Telegraph*
A celebration of the scientific spirit of inquiry and the
remarkable achievements of one man more than 2,500 years ago
*TLS*
A bold and persuasive case that this ancient Greek philosopher
scientist was the founder of critical thinking
*Start the Week, BBC Radio 4*
This is seriously astounding. So lucid, so imaginative, so subtle,
and so large in scope. It's like the best primer you can imagine
for the non-scientist on why what you think you know about Ptolemy
and Copernicus, or Popper and Kuhn, is not quite right
*Twitter*
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