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2600 years ago Anaximander was the first known person to claim the world didn’t need or sit on a pedestal. Earth exists as a solitary bond, and didn’t need to sit on anything else. born in 610 BC, Anaximander was a philosopher who lived in the ancient city of miletus, located in nowaday turkey. Anaximander made one of the first ever maps in the world, and therorised evolution.
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Anaximander was born in 610 BC his mothers name is unknown but his father’s name was Praxedes. Now largely forgotten, the city in which Anaximander was born, Miletus, was booming around the time anaximander was born, it was the greatest, wealthiest city in ancient greece. About 14 years before anaximander was born miletus was the birthplace of the first …show more content…

Pythagoras was one of Thale’s later students, but was also taught by Anaximander. Thales passed his belief to Anaximander about rational explanations, instead of using the roman Gods as an excuse for natural phenomenons Anaximander's overall goal was to understand the universe, and i believe he did a pretty good job of that. Thales also explained to Anaximander that the world Earth is a disk hovering above an infinite body of water . Thales theory was probably made because he looked into the night sky using a telescope hey saw the stars and he thought they looked like disk, so he claimed the earth was also a disk. Thales also established the school of miletus. Anaximander made some alterations to Thales’s theory by completely throwing away the ocean that Thales claimed supported the Earth. Anaximander didn't think the universe always existed, he thought it grew from a seed called apeiron which was a primordial and could not be created nor destroyed. Anaximander also thought there were three rings around the earth , one for the sun, one for the moon , and one for the stars. He correctly claimed the moon was closer to us than the sun, but he incorrectly thought the stars were closer to us than the

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