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Anaxagoras (c.500—428 B.C.E.) Anaxagoras of Clazomenae was an important Presocratic natural philosopher and scientist who lived and taught in Athens for approximately thirty years. He gained notoriety for his materialistic views, particularly his contention that the sun was a fiery rock.
Anaxagoras, (born c. 500, Clazomenae, Anatolia—died c. 428 bc, Lampsacus), Greek philosopher. Though only a few fragments of his writings have survived, he is remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. His cosmology grew out of the efforts of earlier pre-Socratics to explain the physical universe in ...
Jun 8, 2018 · The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (ca. 500-ca. 428 B.C.) was the first to formulate a molecular theory of matter and to regard the physical universe as subject to the rule of rationality or reason. Anaxagoras was born on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor in the town of Clazomenae, near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey).
May 4, 2021 · May 4, 2021 at 8:00 am. The philosopher Anaxagoras introduced "the scientific spirit" to Athens 2,500 years ago, planting the seeds of a philosophical tradition that led to Socrates, Plato and ...
Feb 17, 2024 · February 17, 2024. 3 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (ca. 500–428 BCE) the first person to propose the correct theory of both solar and lunar eclipses? Thales, more than a century earlier, has a claim.
This article is about the philosopher Anaxagoras. For the mythical Greek King Anaxagoras of Argos, see Anaxagoras (mythology). Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated continuum of all material elements of the cosmos.
May 29, 2014 · Anaxagoras is renowned both for his scientific and his more philosophical views. He claimed that the heavenly bodies were stones, not divinities, and was said to have predicted the fall of a meteorite. He argued that everything is in everything and that there is no largest or smallest share of anything.
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