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Anaximander

c. 610–546 BCE · 6th century BCE

Anaximander of Miletus was a Greek philosopher of the 6th century BCE and a pupil of Thales in the Milesian school. He held that the origin of all things was the apeiron, 'the boundless', an indefinite substance from which opposites separate. He is credited with drawing one of the first maps of the known world and with an early theory that living things first arose in water.

Anaximander
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