Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

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Rovelli has written a book on the Greek philosopher Anaximander, published in France, Italy, US [21] and Brazil. The book analyses the main aspects of scientific thinking and articulates Rovelli's views on science. Anaximander is presented in the book as a main initiator of scientific thinking. A deep-thinking, restlessly inquiring spirit’: Carlo Rovelli. Photograph: Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images Bologna, marzo 1977 ...fatti nostri..., a cura di e con Enrico Palandri, Claudio Piersanti [ it], Maurizio Torrealta et alii, Verona, Bertani, 1977; Rimini, NdA press, 2007, ISBN 978-88-89035-17-7.

Colossal waste’: Nobel laureates call for 2% cut to military spending worldwide", The Guardian 14-12-2-2021, 2017. Retrieved 1-6-2023 Smerlak, Matteo; Rovelli, Carlo (3 February 2007). "Relational EPR". Foundations of Physics. 37 (3): 427–445. arXiv: quant-ph/0604064. Bibcode: 2007FoPh...37..427S. doi: 10.1007/s10701-007-9105-0. S2CID 11816650. Rovelli won the second prize in the 2013 FQXi contest "It From Bit or Bit From It?" for his essay about "relative information". His paper, Relative Information at the Foundation of Physics, discusses how "Shannon's notion of relative information between two physical systems can function as [a] foundation for statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, without referring to subjectivism or idealism...[This approach can] represent a key missing element in the foundation of the naturalistic picture of the world." [19] In 2017, Rovelli elaborated further upon the subject of relative information, writing that:Rovelli's first book is on the Italian student political movements in the 1970s. [26] He later refused to compulsory military draft and was briefly detained. All animals originally came from the sea or from the primal humidity that once covered the Earth. The first animals were thus either fish or fishlike creatures. They moved on to land when the Earth became dry, and they adapted to living there. Human beings, in particular, cannot have been born in their current form, because babies are not self-sufficient, so someone else had to have fed them. They grew out of fishlike creatures. Anaximander: And the Birth of Science, Penguin Random House, 2023 [49] (republication of The First Scientist: Anaximander and his legacy, Westholme Publishing, 2011) Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems". BBC Radio 4. The Life Scientific. BBC . Retrieved 30 January 2020.

Anaximander wrote a treatise in prose called On Nature. This book is now lost and only one fragment remains quoted by Simplicius of Cilicia in his commentary on Aristotle's Physics: a new model of the shape and position of earth (not flat, resting on a foundation of some sort, but a cylinder freely floating in the universe) Caldeira, A. O.; Leggett, A. J. (1981). "Influence of Dissipation on Quantum Tunneling in Macroscopic Systems". Physical Review Letters. 46 (4): 211–214. Bibcode: 1981PhRvL..46..211C. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.211. ISSN 0031-9007.

Higgins, Charlotte (14 April 2018). " 'There is no such thing as past or future': physicist Carlo Rovelli on changing how we think about time". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 January 2022.

Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. Non c'è una semplificazione dei concetti, che rimangono impegnativi, ma è l'uso della lingua comune declinata su ambiti specifici, ma non settoriali ed esclusivi, a rendere la lettura fluida e comprensibile. I was looking for the author’s brief lessons in physics and spotted this book as well. To be honest, I thought this one sounded more interesting than the lessons book, so I grabbed it too. It’s a curious little book.Abold and persuasive case that this ancient Greek philosopher scientist was… the founder of critical thinking.”— Adam Rutherford, Start the Week His popular science book, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, was originally published in Italian in 2014. It has been translated into 41 languages [4] and has sold over a million copies worldwide. [5] In 2019, he was included by Foreign Policy magazine in a list of 100 most influential global thinkers. [6] Life and career [ edit ]