Anaximander
historical figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Anaximandre · Anqasmadras · Athnākumandūs · اثنا كمندوس من ملت · انقسمدرس · انقسيمندروس
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Lucullus
Pre-Socratic philosopher who held the infinite as the source from which all things are begotten.
But he did not persuade Anaximander, his fellow-citizen and companion, of this;
On the Nature of the Gods
Early Greek philosopher who held that gods are born and are innumerable worlds.
The opinion of Anaximander is that gods are born, rising and setting at long intervals, and that they are innumerable worlds.
Protrepticus
Milesian philosopher who hymned the Infinite as a divine principle.
And of the other philosophers, all who, passing beyond the elements, busied themselves with something loftier and more extraordinary, some of them hymned the Infinite, as Anaximander (he was a Milesian) and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and the Athenian Archelaus.
Stromata
Milesian philosopher, successor to Thales.
Anaximander, son of Praxiades, the Milesian, succeeds Thales;
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Milesian of the Ionian school whose principle is the limitless, who holds endlessly many worlds arising and perishing, and whose account of the first animals generated in moisture with fish-like scales the editor reads as an anticipation of evolution.
Anaximander (Anqasmadras) (1) holds that the first animals were generated in moisture, and that scales covered them like the scales of the fish;
For this reason he holds that worlds without limit come to be, and then corrupt and return to the thing out of which those worlds came to be, while no diminution befalls it, it being existent everlastingly.
Anqasīmandurūs (Anaximandre), a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Ionian school.
Adversus Marcionem
Greek philosopher credited with holding the heavenly bodies to be divine.
as Thales water, Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the heavenly bodies, Strato heaven and earth, Zeno air and aether, Plato the stars (which kind of gods he calls fiery) — when, considering of the world its greatness and force and power and honour and beauty, the resource, the constancy, the law of the several elements, which conspire to the begetting, nourishing, completing, and re …
De Pallio
Presocratic philosopher cited for a theory of a plurality of worlds.
Let Anaximander look to it, if he thinks there are many;
Symposium
A Homeric critic named as a paid interpreter of Homer.
But you have paid a good deal of money to Stesimbrotus, Anaximander, and many other Homeric critics, so that nothing of their valuable teaching can have escaped your knowledge.