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    Anaxagoras (/ˌænækˈsæɡərəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born...
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  • free dictionary. Anaxagoras may refer to: Anaxagoras, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaxagoras of Aegina, a sculptor 4180 Anaxagoras, a main-belt asteroid...
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  • With Megapenthes being his father, Anaxagoras was considered the brother of Iphianeira, wife of Melampus. Anaxagoras fathered Alector, the father of Iphis...
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    Fractured Bedrock in the Central Peak of the Anaxagoras Crater, LRO article, 16 April 2010 Media related to Anaxagoras (crater) at Wikimedia Commons...
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    included such thinkers as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, and Archelaus. This classification can be traced to the doxographer Sotion...
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  • Anaxagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας) of Aegina was a sculptor who lived around 480 BCE, and created the statue of Zeus in bronze set up at Olympia by...
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  • impiety as Anaxagoras held that the sun was not associated with divinity; it was merely a huge burning stone. Pericles helped Anaxagoras flee Athens...
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    also expressed disagreement with Anaxagoras' understanding of the implications of his own doctrine, because of Anaxagoras' materialist understanding of causation...
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  • attempt to discredit Anaxagoras. The date is not exact, as sources give different years. Some sources list the arrest and trial of Anaxagoras as early as 437/6...
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  • centuries BC. They are Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaxagoras. He had, at one time, intended to include Democritus, Empedocles, and...
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  • knowledge they imply. The concept of the universal mind was presented by Anaxagoras, a pre-Socratic philosopher who arrived in Athens some time after 480...
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    scientific or philosophical explanation for the Sun was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. He reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than...
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  • play outside the house. This "holiday" was dedicated to the philosopher Anaxagoras, who had been persecuted in Athens and sought refuge in Lampsacus. The...
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  • (brother of Melampos) while Anaxagoras and his lineage continued to rule the central region. Alector. Son of Anaxagoras. Iphis. Son of Alector. Sthenelos...
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    and also against Heraclitus (frag .B 6, vv.8–9), while Empedocles and Anaxagoras frequently refer to Parmenides. The reference to Heraclitus has been debated...
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    Metaphysics appears to suggest that Heraclitus and Anaxagoras advocated trivialism. He quotes Anaxagoras as saying that all things are one. Kabay also suggests...
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    Meteorologica, Aristotle (384–322 BC) states that the Greek philosophers Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BC) and Democritus (460–370 BC) proposed that the Milky Way...
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    spherical in shape, with the credit going either to Parmenides or Pythagoras. Anaxagoras was able to demonstrate that the profile of the Earth was circular by...
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    Synonyms Agrias phalcidon Hewitson, 1855 Agrias pericles Bates, 1860 Agrias anaxagoras Staudinger, 1886 Agrias eleonora Fruhstorfer, 1895 Agrias mapiri Fassl...
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  • Anaximander Bion Empedocles Thales Aglaonice Anaxagoras Archytas Aristaeus Callippus Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates...
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  • Greek philosophical tradition to propose that the universe was infinite. Anaxagoras (500–428 BCE) was of the opinion that matter of the universe had an innate...
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  • arche. In place of this, they adopted pluralism, such as Empedocles and Anaxagoras. There were, they said, multiple elements which were not reducible to...
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  • rebellion in a number of Athenian tribute cities, including Potidaea. Anaxagoras is arrested by Pericles' political opponents on a charge of contravening...
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    approach to medicine. Anaxagoras, whose works were studied by Socrates, was living in Athens when Aristophanes was a youth. Anaxagoras enjoyed the patronage...
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  • (2015). "Anaxagoras". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Anaxagoras. Fragments of Anaxagoras. Aristotle...
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    the western rim no longer exists, due to the overlapping Anaxagoras and the smaller Anaxagoras A, and the ejecta from these formations covers the western...
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  • Leucippus, Anaximander, Democritus, Zeno, Anaximenes, Protagoras, Parmenides, Anaxagoras . THE PLAZA PAD is another mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important)...
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    Ionian Anaxagoras Archelaus Metrodorus of Lampsacus Italian Empedocles Acron Pausanias...
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    the Nebra sky disc from c. 1800–1600 BCE. The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (d. 428 BC) reasoned that the Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks...
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    writing – in Scientology 8-8008, for example, these include philosophers from Anaxagoras and Aristotle to Herbert Spencer and Voltaire, physicists and mathematicians...
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