Anaximander of Miletus (c. 611-c. 547 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3425. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Greek philosopher, born in Miletus, pupil of THALES. Believed that the Earth was a cylinder with a diameter three times its height, unsupported, at the center of the universe. We live on the top end of the cylinder. His theory of the universe was that objects are formed from a vortex process by which light objects were flung out to their periphery. This separated hot and cold, moist and dry, and ...

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