Anaximander

[ uh-nak-suh-man-der ]

/ əˌnæk səˈmæn dər /

611?–547? b.c., Greek astronomer and philosopher.

OTHER WORDS FROM Anaximander

A·nax·i·man·dri·an

[uh-nak-suh-man-dree-uh n] /əˌnæk səˈmæn dri ən/, adjective

Pythagoras was a contemporary of Anaximander, and, like him, one of the great founders of mathematics.

The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics |Various
With Thales too, he looked upon it as a particular kind of matter, not indeterminate matter as taught by Anaximander.

A Critical History of Greek Philosophy |W. T. Stace
Anaximander thinks that she gives light to herself, but it is very slender and faint.

Essays and Miscellanies |Plutarch
(Anaximander)292 had better explain the consistence of the infinity by which he explains matter.

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 |Plotinos (Plotinus)

Anaximander represents the earth as a cylinder, the upper face of which alone is inhabited.

Astronomical Myths |John F. Blake

Anaximander

/ (əˌnæksɪˈmændə) /

611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite