Biography of anaximander of miletus

Biography of anaximander of miletus...

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Born

611 BC
Miletus near Söke, Turkey

Died

546 BC

Summary

Anaximander of Miletus was a Greek scholar who first proposed that the sun, moon and planets revolved around the earth.

he invented the gnomon of a sun-dial.

Biography

Little is known about the life of Anaximander of Miletus but we do know a little through the writings of Aristotle, Apollodorus, and Diogenes Laertius and others.

Anaximander philosophy

We should emphasise that Apollodorus, although writing in the second century BC, was still 500 years later than AnaximanderwhileDiogenes wrote almost 500 years after Apollodorus. Possible details of Anaximander from these sources suggest that he was the son of Praxiades and a pupil of Thales.

One ancient text states that Thales was related to Anaximander - possibly his uncle. He may have succeeded Thales as head of his School of Philosophy in Miletus (as reported by Diogenes). He is reported to have travelled widely, and founded a colony called Apollonia on the coast