Anaximander. By Carlo Rovelli. Translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead Books; 272 pages; $18. Allen Lane; £16.99 Of the three men usually credited with founding the disciplines of philosophy ...

ASTRONOMY was conducted at Chinese government institutions for more than 20 centuries before Jesuit missionaries turned up and, somewhat bemused, pointed out that Earth is round. Why, after so much ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus redefined our place in the cosmos. The mathematician and astronomer ...

Science is the reason you aren't reading this by firelight nestled cozily under a rock somewhere however, its practice significantly predates its formalization by Galileo in the 16th century. Among ...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1 Theoretical physicist Rovelli (There Are Places in the World Where Rules ...

Anaximander held that the Earth was a flattened cylinder, which is less true but does not undermine his achievement. As Rovelli argues, it is the conceptual shift that opens the questions of the Earth ...