Where does Physics begin and what could surprise Thales and Euclid? The greatest mysteries of the world history of science are three rises of scientific activity (and two declines), clearly separated in time and space: Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Golden Age of Islam and the Modern Age of the West. These riddles have no generally accepted solution. The historian is especially struck by the contrast of the small social scale and the enormous significance of the rise of science...

The world community is faced with many global problems and contradictions, which have intensified amid the coronavirus pandemic. Against this same background, extremely alarming and dangerous events are developing in Russia, negatively affecting both the state of society and the country’s relations with the international community.