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Anaximander

Born

Miletus, Ionian league

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Philosophy

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611 BC - 547 BC

Greek philosopher and astronomer Anaximander constructed the first precise geometrical model of the universe, which, from one primordial substance, he speculated, arose out the separation of opposite qualities.

He lived in Asia Minor, before Socrates. He belonged to the school and learned the teachings of Thales, his master. He succeeded Thales as the second master of that school and counted Anaximenes and arguably Pythagoras among his pupils.

People today know little of his life and work. According to available historical documents, people know that he wrote down his studies despite only one extant fragment of his work. After his death, fragmentary testimonies, found in documents, provide a portrait of the man.

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	The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield (Translator), Anaximander, Anaximenes 3.95 avg rating — 960 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, James Miller (Editor)(Introduction), Pamela Mensch (Contributor)(Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 250 — 266 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Astronomy Book by D.K. Publishing, Thomas Judd (Narrator), Charles II of England (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmanlar: Kişilikleri, Doktrinleri, Alımlanmaları by Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes 4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os Pensadores Originários by Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments 3.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anaximander Fragment liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oeuvres de Anaximandre liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anaximander of Miletos (translated by John Burnet) by Anaximander, John Burnet (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins of Scientific Thought : From Anaximander to Proctus 600 B.c. To 300 A.d. by Anaximander, Proctus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Anaximander (?)

“The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.”
― Anaximander of Miletus

tags: astronomy, center, earth, science, sphere

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“Time brought its revenges, and for the wrong-doing of existence all things paid the penalty of death.”
― Anaximander, Fragments

tags: creation, death

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