Anaximander

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Anaximander is thought to have been a pupil of Thales of Miletus. Evidence exists that he wrote treatises on geography, astronomy, and cosmology that survived for several centuries, and that he made a map of the known world. As a rationalist he prized symmetry and introduced geometry and mathematical proportions into his efforts to map the heavens. Thus, his theories departed from earlier, more mystical conceptions of the universe and prefigured the achievements of later astronomers.
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Anaximander
John Burnet
Anaximander, son of Praxiades, was also a citizen of Miletus, and Theophrastus described him as an "associate" of Thales. Like his predecessor, he distinguished himself by certain practical inventions. Some writers credited him with that of the gnomon; but that can hardly be correct. Herodotus tells us this instrument came from Babylon, and Thales must have used it to determine the solstices and equinoxes. Anaximander was also the first to construct a map, and Eratosthenes said this was the map elaborated by Hecataeus. No doubt it was intended to be of service to Milesian enterprise in the Black Sea. Anaximander himself conducted a colony to Apollonia, and his fellow-citizens erected a statue to him.
http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch1b.htm

Anaximander
Gerne werden die Ansichten des griechischen Philosophs Anaximander (6. Jh. v. Chr.) als früheste uns bekannte allumfassende Theorie, die auf personifizierte Gottheiten verzichtet, dem Mythos gegenübergestellt. Betrachtet man jedoch Anaximanders Vorgehensweise bei der Aufstellung seines Weltbilds, so hat dies meiner Meinung nach viel mehr mit Mythologie denn mit Wissenschaft zu tun.
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Anaximander of Miletus (610-ca. 546 BC)
Eric W. Weisstein
Greek philosopher who was a pupil of Thales. Like Thales, Anaximander also imported ideas from the East, including the sundial. Anaximander conceived the idea that the stars  were fixed on a crystalline sphere rotating around the Earth.
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Anaximander (611-547 BCE.)
Anaximander was a Greek philosopher of Miletus, born 611 BCE., and hence a younger contemporary of Thales and Pherecydes. He lived at the court of Polycrates of Samos, and died 547. He wrote a prose work in the Ionic dialect of which on fragment survives. Anaximander thought it unnecessary to fix upon air, water, or fire as the original and primary form of body. He preferred to represent it simply as a boundless something from which all things arise and to which they all return again.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/anaximan.htm

Anaximander - Fragments and Commentary
Arthur Fairbanks
Anaximandros of Miletos was a companion or pupil of Thales. According to Apollodoros he was born in the second or third year of the forty-second Olympiad (611-610B.C.). Of his life little is known; Zeller infers from the statement of Aelian (V.H. iii. 17) to the effect that he led the Milesian colony into Apollonia, that he was a man of influence in Miletos. He was a student of geography and astronomy; and various inventions, such as the sundial, are attributed to him. His book, which was referred to as the first philosophical treatise in Greece, may not have received the title "GREEK" until after his death. It soon became rare, and Simplicius does not seem to have had access to it.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/anaximan.htm

Anaximander of Miletus
(c. 6th century B.C.)
Anaximander said that the principle and element of existing things was the infinite. And the source of coming-to-be for existing things is that into which destruction, too, happens 'according to necessity; for they pay penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice according to the assessment of Time' as he describes it in these rather poetical terms. - Simplicius Phy. 24,13
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