The Greek natural philosopher and astronomer Anaximander (611 BC-ca. 546 BC) attempted to explain the origins of the universe through his theory of the apeiron. Born in Miletus, Anaximander was the son of Praxiades. According to tradition, he was a...

c. 610-c. 547 B.C. Greek Philosopher Anaximander is famous for introducing the concept of the apeiron—the first use of an unobservable entity to explain empirical phenomena. He also developed the first geometrical model of the universe, drew the...

Anaximander(C. 610 Bce–After 546 Bce) Anaximander is the first Greek scientist and philosopher whose thought is known to us in any detail. He was born in Miletus c. 610 BCE and died shortly after 546 BCE. He was thus in his twenties in 585 BCE,...

Anaximander (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος) (c. 610 BC–c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the Milesian school and studied the teachings of its master Thales. He succeeded him and...

SUNY Series in Ancient Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiii + 326 pp. Paper, $27.95--In this book, Robert Hahn proposes an idea deserving serious consideration. One would like to know why western philosophy began where and when it did;...

Once a very short time They lived a different kind of life a howling Wilderness does not howl It is the imagination of The traveller that howls And the mind in which The valley and apples Have failed cries out ...

In the excerpt that follows, Guthrie provides a historical framework for Anaximander's cosmology and cosmogony, contending that Anaximander made original and significant contributions to scientific thought.

In the following excerpt, Kahn contends that Anaximander 's most significant achievement was the conception of nature governed by regular and determinate laws. According to Kahn, Anaximander's Boundless was not a mystical but a scientific and philosophical idea.

In the following excerpt, Hussey examines Anaximander's philosophy in the larger context of Milesian cosmology.