Anaximander
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Thales and two of his students, Anaximander and Anaximenes, made up the monist Milesian school.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Following Anaximander, a third scientist, Anaximenes, created the theory of the four elements that, he argued, comprise all things – earth, air, fire, and water.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Since the time of the Greek philosopher Anaximander, humans have gazed up at the heavens and wondered: Is anyone else out there?
From Time • Jul. 21, 2016
Mr. Tauranac has had a hand in many subway maps of one kind or another since 1979, but was not the Anaximander of the subways.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013
Presented with the night sky, Eratosthenes might have contemplated the cosmological speculations of Thales, Anaximander, Leucippus, and the Pythagoreans.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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