Diogenes of Apollonia adopted the idea of Anaximenes, but gave a deeper significance to it. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
Anaximenes, that they are turned under and about the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Anaximenes affirms that in its dilatation it resembles a leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Stoics, the aether, or the sun; or with Anaximenes, the air, to be. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
'He is in the city; he stays at the house of Anaximenes the ephor. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Anaximenes believes that the stars are forced by a condensed and resisting air. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Anaximenes was concerned to account for the world's unity: its varieties were only products of con. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anaximenes, that the earth by reason of its latitude is borne upon by the air which presseth upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
It was a leader in culture and art, and produced the philosophers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. From Wordnik.com. [Miletos Tristesse] Reference
Anaximenes, that the rest in this are not at all concerned, but that it is wholly performed by the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Anaximenes, for example, explains the different states of matter in terms of rarefaction and condensation. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus give the flatness of the earth as the cause of its staying still. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
The idea is found, in crude forms, in Pythagoras 'immediate predecessors, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. From Wordnik.com. [The Reach of an Ancient Greek] Reference
Thales had for his successors Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Anaxagoras, who taught the doctrines of the Ionian school. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Thales, for example, thought that everything was essentially water, and Anaximenes that everything was a form of air. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
Anaximenes believes that the mouth of the wheel, about which the moon is turned, being stopped is the cause of an eclipse. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
He assumed a vital air in all living things, being in this influenced by Anaximenes whose primitive matter was infinite air. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Anaximenes and Diogenes make air prior to water, and the most primary of the simple bodies, while Hippasus of Metapontium and. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Ionian culture reached its height, particularly in philosophy: Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander were all active at Miletus. From Wordnik.com. [b. Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands] Reference
Alcmaeon's belief that the sun is flat is another possible connection to Anaximenes, who said that the sun was flat like a leaf (DK13A15). From Wordnik.com. [Alcmaeon] Reference
This is pretty nearly all that we know of Anaximenes. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
Anaximenes also, was a species of Materialistic Pantheism. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Anaximenes, air; Heraclitus, fire; Pythagoras, numbers; and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Anaximenes, and Herakleïtos into contact with the Eranian dogmas. From Wordnik.com. [India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge] Reference
Anaximander said it was air, whereupon Anaximenes said it was matter. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Anaximenes is the historical successor of Thales; he was unquestionably. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Anaximenes, his disciple, pursued his inquiries, and adopted his method. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Water was not to Anaximenes the most significant, neither was it the most universal element. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Anaximenes from Chios, Polus from Agrigentum; and a rapid fame it brought, to them and many others. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
This brief notice of the physical speculations of Anaximenes is all that has survived of his opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Anaximenes should make petition for, whereupon Anaximenes made petition that he would destroy the town. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Anaximenes, stated by him to have maintained, the one Moisture and the other Air to be the origin of all things; and that of. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
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