![]() ![]() The book has not survived, other than a few brief fragments.Īnother reason that Anaximander deserves the name ’the first scientist’ is his omnivorous curiosity. ‘The First Scientist’ by Carlo RovelliĪnaximander is also the first Greek philosopher whom we know to have written his philosophy down, in a book that is usually referred to with the title On Nature. Even more important than these contributions, he set in motion the process of rethinking our worldview-a search for knowledge based on the rejection of any obvious-seeming “certainty,” which is one of the main roots of scientific thinking. ![]() He paved the way for physics, geography, meteorology, and biology. It is for this reason that the physicist Carlo Rovelli has called Anaximander ’the first scientist': He was fascinated by processes of generation and destruction in the natural world. The philosopher Anaximander was born in the trading port of Miletus in 610 BCE, and is said to have become a student of the philosopher Thales. ![]()
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