Xenophanes
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A strikingly original thinker, Xenophanes knew that fossilized marine organisms had been found on Mediterranean islands like Malta, south of Italy, and Paros, near Athens.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
Xenophanes believed that the phase of wetness destroys all human life on Earth.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
Like Xenophanes before him, Maimonides rejects anthropomorphic religious elements, such as God in human form.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Similarly, early thinkers like Xenophanes began to formulate explanations for natural phenomena.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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