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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Presocratic philosophers, Presocratic studies, Pythagorean philosophy, Democritus, Pre-Socratic philosophy, Thales, Leucippus, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Protagoras, Pythagorean tuning, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anacharsis, Anaxagoras, Anaximenes of Miletus, Sacred geometry, Zeno of Elea, Prodicus, Pythagoreanism, Melissus of Samos, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Pherecydes of Syros, Alcmaeon of Croton, Golden mean, Xenophanes, Paired opposites, Philolaus, The golden verses of Pythagoras, Ionian School, Hermann Alexander Diels, Androcydes, Diogenes of Apollonia, Archelaus, Milesian school, Neopythagoreanism, John Burnet, Eleatics, Harmonices Mundi, Mysterium Cosmographicum, Musica universalis, Hippo, Sentences of Sextus, Geoffrey Kirk, Metrodorus of Chios, Hermotimus of Clazomenae, Themistoclea, Unit-point atomism, Sonometer, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Melissa, Pluralist school, Table of Opposites, Philip Wheelwright, Material monism, Ephesian school, Lute of Pythagoras, On Nature, Abderites. Excerpt: Anaximander (Ancient Greek: , Anaximandros; English pronunciation: ) (c. 610 BC - c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and Pythagoras amongst his pupils. Little of his life and work is known today. According to available historical documents, he is the first philosopher known to have written down his studies, although only one fragment of his work remains. Fragmentary testimonies found in documents after his death provide a portrait of the man. Anaximander was one of the earliest Greek thinkers at the start of the Axial Age, the period from approximately 700 BC to 200...
