Anaximenes of Miletus
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy, Science
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Scientists, Physics, Physicists, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Areas of Achievement: Philosophy and science Greek philosopher{$I[g]Greece;Anaximenes}{$I[g]Asia Minor;Anaximenes} Anaximenes posited the first theory to explain a single substance capable of changing its form and the first to attribute the nature of matter entirely to physical rather than moral laws.
Early Life
The writings of Anaximenes (an-ak-SIHM-uh-neez) of Miletus no longer exist. Thus, knowledge of Anaximenes is based on a few statements made by Aristotle and later writers on the history of Greek philosophy, some of whom quote...
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