Existence Of Anaximander And Xenophanes By Aristophanes

Antiquity: During the classical antiquity time period I will convey a brief explanation entailing inquiries into the workings of the universe aimed establishing understanding towards mathematics, medicine and natural philosophy in the ancient world.

The Author, Its Work: Aristophanes, from Clouds; fragments from Anaximander and Xenophanes The cloud presents the ideas and beliefs of Anaximander and Aristophanes in the terms of the existence of another world in relation to astronomy. The saw astronomy as an outlet for people to believe in something different other than what the philosophers of their time would have them believe in or study such as philosophy and geometry. Astronomy allowed people to believe in a higher being, to believe in

Anaximander anticipated that worlds appeared and disappeared for a while, and that some were born when others perished. Anaximander's claim that from the infinite came the principle of beings, which themselves comes from the heavens and the worlds. The reason for this sort of thinking is because many viewed the study of astronomy and celestial bodies as ignorant, simple-minded and a waste of time and practice. This was important to the history of science in that it provided people with something to believe in. it allowed for the opportunity to seek things out of this world and relish the realms of possibilities outside what we know and

In so doing, he studies the nature things and establishes principles, all which are evident in his book Physics. Aristotle believed that to understand nature “we must understand what is familiar to us, before seeking understanding of things we know not off” (Aristotle 13). He theorized that universal forms were not necessarily attached to each object or concept, and that each instance of an object or a concept had to be analyzed through concrete data from the world. Aristotle regarded thoughts superior to the senses, he believed the senses were needed in order to properly determine reality. Aristotle rejected a universal form of the good; strongly believing in the principle of movement: growth and change, as well as having substantial form. The three basic ideas Aristotle believed were needed for something to be considered natural were form, matter, and the principle of motion/change. In Aristotelian physics, for an object to start at one phase and end up with its full form: material cause, formal cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause are the steps need to transition from the state of a potential being to and actual being. Aristotle’s ideas are important to the history of science because his proposed idea of induction as a tool for gaining knowledge, and his understanding that abstract thought and reasoning must be supported by real world findings, led to future scholars to gain