Anaximander

American  

[uh-nak-suh-man-der] / əˌnæk səˈmæn dər /

noun

1. 611?–547? b.c., Greek astronomer and philosopher.

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Anaximander British  

/ əˌnæksɪˈmændə /

noun

1. 611–547 _bc , Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite

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Other Word Forms

• Anaximandrian adjective

Example Sentences

Anaximander thought that water was too specific to be the basis for everything that exists.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Thales had a student, Anaximander, who posited that rather than floating on water as his teacher had suggested, the earth was held suspended in space by a perfectly symmetrical balance of forces.

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

From this Anaximander concluded that human beings arose from other animals with more self-reliant newborns: He proposed the spontaneous origin of life in mud, the first animals being fish covered with spines.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan