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Anaximander (/ æ ˌ n æ k s ɪ ˈ m æ n d ər / AN-ak-sih-MAN-dər; Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales.
Anaximander, Greek philosopher who was the first to develop a cosmology, or systematic philosophical view of the world. He held an evolutionary view of living things, in which humans originated from some other kind of animal, and he drew a map of the known world.
Anaximander (c. 610—546 B.C.E.) Anaximander was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy. He speculated and argued about “the Boundless” as the origin of all that is. He also worked on the fields of what we now call geography and biology.
Sep 2, 2009 · Definition. Anaximander of Miletus (l. c. 610 - c. 546 BCE) was one of the early Pre-Socratic Philosophers who lay the foundation for the deveopment of Western Philosophy. He was a student of Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE), recognized as the first philosopher of ancient Greece.
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Anaximander, (born 610 bc, Miletus—died 546/545 bc ), Greek philosopher, often called the founder of astronomy. He apparently wrote treatises on geography, astronomy, and cosmology that survived for several centuries and made a map of the known world. He was the first thinker to develop a cosmology.
Sep 28, 2023 · Anaximander of Miletus was a student and associate of the first philosopher, Thales, in the ancient Greek city of Miletus. Anaximander has been credited with many accomplishments: the introduction of the gnomon into Greek culture and the set up of a sundial in Sparta; the first to mark the solstices and equinoxes; the first to draw an outline ...
Anaximander ( Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia (the first being Thales and the third Anaximenes ). He was a citizen of Miletus, a student of Thales, and the teacher of Anaximenes.
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