10-5 Anaximander

Biography - RADINA

Interesting facts about philosopher’s life - HRISTO

World explanation - ANNA

Arché understanding - BERK

  • reported to have been a student of Thales

boundless

indefinite

The first astronomer who considered the sun as a large object and realized

the term he used was apeiron, which later became the word for infinite

ground of all reality

cosmic order

The first philosopher who put his studies in writing

believes there is some cosmic order and laws that dictate what comes into and passes out of being

things perish because they must “pay penalty and retribution for their injustices”

motion and change are ethereal

the Earth

Earth is “aloft” (not supported by anything) and equidistant (equally distant from anything else)

introduced the gnomon into Greece, which is a sundial with a vertical needle.

rounded and circular with two plane surfaces (like a cylinder)

indescribable, beyond language

surrounded by ring of fire that can only be seen through vents

He lived in Miletus and studied the Milesian school.He became the second master of the school.

died in 547 BC (at the age of 64)

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apeiron is eternal