The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli
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Aristotle's Most Spectacular Idea
Aristotle wrote a book. The title of the book was Perifusios on nature. Fusios is the world from which physics come from. So my own discipline, which is physics, is named after his book, so to say. And there was perhaps most spectacular content of his book. His idea that the Earth is surrounded by the sky and the sky is all around it. Kargla Popper described as one of the most pretentous ideas that humankind ever had.
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