In Rovelli’s formative book, now published in English for the first time, he argues that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos Something very startling happened in Miletus, ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Non-Fiction news every morning. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus redefined our place in the cosmos. The mathematician and ...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who specialises in quantum gravity. The range of his published works includes what might be called popular science — explaining the wonders of science in ...

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 ...

He is, in short, Rovelli’s hero, and Anaximander and the Nature of Science sets out to show how important he was. The interest here, though, is less biographical than historical and philosophical. We ...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli (Verona, 1956) es físico teórico, y uno de los fundadores de la llamada «gravedad cuántica de bucles». Es miembro del Instituto Universitario de Francia y de la Academia Internacional de ...