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Something wrong?A Greek philosopher in Miletus around 600 BC who put forward the idea that nature runs on laws - not gods - and that everything comes from something infinite and unnamed. He drew one of the first maps of the world and wrote his thinking down, making him the earliest philosopher whose work entered the written record.
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Anaximander insciptio library catalog hellenistic Taormina 121848
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Persectives of Anaximander's universe
Perspective de l'Univers d'Anaximander
PSM V10 D563 Anaximander cylindrical earthIn their own words 3
, All things must in equity again decline into that whence they have their origin for they must give satisfaction and atonement for injustice each in the order of time.
There cannot be a single, simple body which is infinite, either, as some hold, one distinct from the elements, which they then derive from it, nor without this qualification.
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited.
In their orbit
About this person
Anaximander studied under Thales in the Milesian school, then took over as its second master and taught Anaximenes and possibly Pythagoras. He worked across disciplines: in astronomy he tried to explain how celestial bodies move relative to Earth; in physics he proposed the apeiron - the infinite - as the source of all things, a leap in abstraction for Greek thought. He introduced the gnomon, a sundial instrument, to Greece using his geometry knowledge, and created a map of the world that pushed geography forward. He also served Miletus politically and was sent to lead one of its colonies. Only one fragment of his written work survives, but he's recognised as the first philosopher known to have recorded his studies in writing.
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