Definition for Anaximander
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Anaximander (611 B.C.E. to 547 B.C.E.): Greek philosopher; the successor and perhaps pupil of Thales. He claimed that the first principle (Arche) was not a particular substance like water or air but the infinite or indefinite (in Greek, the Apeiron, or the ‘boundless’). He is credited with producing the first map, and with many imaginative scientific speculations, for example that the Earth is unsupported and at the center of the universe. A translation of his surviving fragment runs as follows: “Whence things have their origin, thence also their destruction happens, as is the order of things, giving justice and reparation to one another for their crimes.”