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| 585 B.C.E. | Greek natural philosophy begins with Thales of Miletus who held that water was the underlying substance of everything in the world. |
| c. 546B.C.E. | Anaximander of Miletus (born 610 B.C.E.) writes the first Greek treatise in prose, setting forth his view that the origin of all things was the "Boundless" or the "Infinite" which he considered divine. He also speculates that the underlying substance of everything is air which becomes fire when rarefied and earth when condensed. |
| 545 B.C.E. | Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon goes into exile and eventutemple of Amon at Karnak in the Hippodrome at Constantinople, and has a base made for it decorated with reliefs, one of which shows Theodosius surrounded by his court. Figually settles in Elea, modern Velia, in southern Italy. He is the precursor of the Eleatic school of philosophy... |
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