Anaximander taught Pythagoras, who would build on Anaximander's scientific theories by applying mathematical laws to natural phenomena. He is the first person known to understand that the Earth floats in space to believe that the sun, the moon, and the stars rotate around it-seven centuries before Ptolemy to argue that all animals came from the sea and evolved and to posit that universal laws control all change in the world. Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE Greek philosopher, is often called the first scientist because he was the first to suggest that order in the world was due to natural forces, not supernatural ones. Carlo Rovelli, a leading theoretical physicist, uses the figure of Anaximander as the starting point for an examination of scientific thinking itself: its limits, its strengths, its benefits to humankind, and its controversial relationship with religion.
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