Anaximenes
Americannoun
noun
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Thales and two of his students, Anaximander and Anaximenes, made up the monist Milesian school.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Anaximenes held that air was the basic substance of the universe.
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
Thales thought its primal substance was water, Anaximenes air, Heraclitus fire.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2012
Than Anaximenes sayde: sir, I desyre your grace, that this same cite Lampsac may be vtterly distroyed.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
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