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Anaximenes
World Explanation
Views the earth, sun, and moon as all
“riding upon the air.”
The Earth is suspended in something which means that this world view tries to meet Thales’s desire to find out what holds the Earth in space.
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Believed that the earth, moon and sun are flat and that the earth is center of the universe
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Biography
Anaximenes was born in Miletus and lived from 585 to 528 BC. He was a student of Anaximander, who is also a Greek philosopher from Miletus. Part of the Milesian School.
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Fun Facts
- He observed the rainbow, and instead of describing it as a goddess, he described it with science -- as the affect of sun rays on compacted air.
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- Believes the universe is hemispherical.
- He is the first astronomer to consider the Sun as a huge mass and realize how far away from the Earth it really is.
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The Milesian School
The three main philosophers were Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. Instead of explaining all events in nature through divine entities, they used a more "scientific" approach. They inherited Babylonian and Egyptian knowledge on mathematics and astronomy.
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