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Bookmark or Share- Anaxagoras - WikipediaAnaxagoras (/ ˌ æ n æ k ˈ s æ ɡ ə r ə s /; Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire, Anaxagoras came to Athens.
- An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a ...Close to the north pole of the moon lies the crater Anaxagoras, named for a Greek philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C. The eponym is fitting, as Anaxagoras the man was one of the...
- Anaxagoras and the Eclipse: The First to Get It RightWas the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (ca. 500–428 BCE) the first person to propose the correct theory of both solar and lunar eclipses? Thales, more than a century earlier, has a claim. Anaxagoras’s contemporary Empedocles of Acragas has also been credited.
- 17 Historical “Facts” That Turned Out to Be Untrue - MSNThis is a myth popularized by 19th-century art and opera costumes. Archaeological evidence shows no such helmets. The Museum of the Viking Age describes the true helmet as “a metal frame around ...
- Anaxagoras (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (a major Greek city of Ionian Asia Minor), a Greek philosopher of the 5 th century B.C.E. (born ca. 500–480), was the first of the Presocratic philosophers to live in Athens. He propounded a physical theory of “everything-in-everything,” and claimed that nous (intellect or mind) was the motive cause of the cosmos.
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