The Greek philosopher Anaximenes (active 546 BC), last of the important philosophers of Miletus, was perhaps the first philosopher to insist on an underlying physical law governing the universe. The details of the life of Anaximenes are almost totally...

Anaximenes(6th Century Bce) Anaximenes was the third and last member (the others were Thales and Anaximander) of what is traditionally called the Milesian school of natural philosophers ( physiologoi ). The date of his death is estimated 528/526 BCE;...

570?-500?B.C. Greek philosopher who thought the source of all things to be infinite and that air was the basic element from which all others came. According to Anaximenes, air, when evenly distributed, is invisible; when condensed, it becomes water;...

Anaximenes (Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 BC–c. 525 BC) was a Greek philosopher from the latter half of the 6th century, probably a younger contemporary of Anaximander, whose pupil or friend he is said to have been. He held that...