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Anaximander ( / æˌnæksɪˈmændər / AN-ak-sih-MAN-dər; Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) [3] was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, [4] 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 · 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.
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 · The ancient Greek scholar named Anaximander was the author of the first surviving passage of Western philosophy. He made one of the earliest attempts at a rational explanation of the origin of the universe and did fundamental work in the fields of astronomy, geography, biology, and philosophy.
Apr 10, 2019 · Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who had a deep interest in cosmology as well as a systematic view of the world (Encyclopedia Britannica). Although little about his life and world is known today he was one of the first philosophers to write down his studies and he was an advocate of science and trying to understand the structure and ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · The Greek natural philosopher and astronomer Anaximander (ca. 610-ca. 546 B.C.) attempted to explain the origins of the universe through his theory of the apeiron. Born in Miletus, Anaximander was the son of Praxiades. According to tradition, he was a pupil of the Greek philosopher Thales.
Anaximander is the first Greek scientist and philosopher whose thought is known to us in any detail. He was born in Miletus c. 610 BCE and died shortly after 546 BCE. He was thus in his twenties in 585 BCE, the year of the famous solar eclipse that Thales is said to have predicted.
Mar 3, 2023 · Anaximander was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city in ancient Greece, during the 6th century BCE. He was a contemporary of Thales, another famous philosopher of the time, and was a teacher of Anaximenes.
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