The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli
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The Axis-Mander
There's a lot of sources in ancient writers that refer to him even in things that seems completely obvious to us as ideas of him which are not clear. Typically, this happens for his ideas about meteorological phenomena. An axi-mander reflects and says, wait a minute, we see water evaporating. Obvious is the same water. So he's the one who understood this beautiful thing we learn when the kids, the cycle of water - but now we know they're right.
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