Anaximander

Bestselling physicist Carlo Rovelli argues in this enjoyable and provocative little book that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos

Tim Adams, Observer

Rovelli is a very good scientist and a very good writer. He explains some of the most conceptually difficult and densest areas of physics lightly and breezily. Here, he tells the story of an ancient thinker who had a revolutionary idea about the Earth's place in the cosmos

Tom Whipple, The Times

A celebration of the scientific spirit of inquiry and the remarkable achievements of one man more than 2,500 years ago

John Sellars, TLS

As Rovelli's fans will expect, this book is excellent. It is never less than engaging, and enviably compendious

Tim Smith-Laing, The Telegraph

Anaximander is a delight and so is this book

James McConnachie, Sunday Times

A bold and persuasive case that this ancient Greek philosopher scientist was the founder of critical thinking

Adam Rutherford, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4

This is seriously astounding. So lucid, so imaginative, so subtle, and so large in scope. It's like the best primer you can imagine for the non-scientist on why what you think you know about Ptolemy and Copernicus, or Popper and Kuhn, is not quite right

Sam Leith, Twitter

Carlo Rovelli’s Anaximander is a knockout: there’s nobody like Rovelli for bridging the Two Cultures, and I was enlarged by his lucid, optimistic account, full of fascinating historical nuggets, of what scientists do and why it’s exciting

Sam Leith, TLS , Best Books of the Year