Biographies

Anaximander the boldy imaginative thinker, was born in Miletus in 611 B.C. As the son of Praxiades, he was the pupil of the Greek philospher thales. Anaximader introduced a sundial into Greece, and determined equinoxes. He was the first Greek to draw a map of inhibited earth. Anaximander was the first to write a treatise which was called "On Nature." He was the first author of western philosophy. He often worked and studied in fields which we now know as biology, and geography. He was the first abstract astronomer

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