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Anaximenes - Coggle Diagram
Anaximenes
Biography
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his works no longer exist, only in passages of later authors
World Explanation
- natural processes (condensation and rarefaction) - involved in the process of creating the world
- cosmology: everything is based on air, which possessed life and was eternally alive; the earth, sun, and moon as “riding upon the air”
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- connection: the scientific concept of air different from his; believed that the Earth was flat, while today we know it's a sphere
Interesting Facts
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"Anaximenes went on to describe the universe not as a complete sphere like Anaximander's but as hemispherical, with the stars passing around, not under, the earth."-YourDictionary
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Arche
Anaximenes' interpretation of archē is that is infinite, but that it must not be completely indeterminate. His understanding of archē is that it was air, but he believed that air was something like invisible mist, not like a mixture of gases. He thought that air possessed life and everything was created by and of it.
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