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The First Scientist
The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy | Carlo Rovelli
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Translated into English for the first time, an award-winning theoretical physicist discusses the theories of Anaximander, the sixth-century BC Greek philosopher, and examines the influence he had on scientific thinking in a historical and philosophical context.
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Carlo Rovelli is just a great science writer. It is an enjoyable argument about Anaximader role as the first real scientist and how he has not been given his due as a major figure in science, not philosophy. More importantly Rovelli discusses and explains what is science and scientific thought. It‘s limits and its strengths. Very enjoyable

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What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.