Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in the 6th century BCE in Miletus, a city in modern-day Turkey. He was a student of Thales, another prominent philosopher, and is considered one of the founders of Western philosophy.
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610 BC - 546 BC
Balat, Didim, Aydın, Turkey
"Anaximander held that the principle and element of all things is the infinite, which he called the apeiron."
"Anaximander was the first to draw a map of the world and to write a book on the nature of things."
Book & Page: Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1.5.986a21-22
#Quotes"Anaximander ... maintained that the universe is indestructible and that it is neither generated nor corrupted, but remains eternally."
Book & Page: Aristotle, Physics, 2.3.194b20-22
#Quotes"Anaximander held that the principle and element of all things is the infinite, which he called the apeiron."
Book & Page: Plato, Phaedo, 96b
#Quotes"Anaximander argued that the Earth was at the center of the universe, and that the stars were attached to a crystalline sphere that surrounded it."
Book & Page: Plato, "Timaeus" (29a)
#Quotes"Anaximander believed that living creatures arose from the Earth, and that they evolved over time through a process of natural selection."
Book & Page: Empedocles, "On Nature" (Fragment 6)
#Quotes"Anaximander was a student of Thales, and he inherited many of his teacher's ideas about the nature of the universe."
Book & Page: Heraclitus, "Fragments" (Fragment 40)
#Quotes"Anaximander was one of the first philosophers to propose that the universe was governed by natural laws, rather than by the arbitrary will of the gods."
Book & Page: Heraclitus, "Fragments" (Fragment 40)
#Quotes"Anaximander was the first to draw a map of the world and to write a book on the nature of things."
Book & Page: Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1.5.986a21-22
#Quotes"Anaximander ... maintained that the universe is indestructible and that it is neither generated nor corrupted, but remains eternally."
Book & Page: Aristotle, Physics, 2.3.194b20-22
#Quotes"Anaximander held that the principle and element of all things is the infinite, which he called the apeiron."
Book & Page: Plato, Phaedo, 96b
#Quotes"Anaximander argued that the Earth was at the center of the universe, and that the stars were attached to a crystalline sphere that surrounded it."
Book & Page: Plato, "Timaeus" (29a)
#Quotes"Anaximander believed that living creatures arose from the Earth, and that they evolved over time through a process of natural selection."
Book & Page: Empedocles, "On Nature" (Fragment 6)
#Quotes"Anaximander was a student of Thales, and he inherited many of his teacher's ideas about the nature of the universe."
Book & Page: Heraclitus, "Fragments" (Fragment 40)
#Quotes"Anaximander was one of the first philosophers to propose that the universe was governed by natural laws, rather than by the arbitrary will of the gods."
Book & Page: Heraclitus, "Fragments" (Fragment 40)
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