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)
apeiron is eternal