Ancient · c. 610–546 BC
Who influenced Anaximander?
Influences and legacy
Drew the first world map and traced everything to the boundless apeiron.
Anaximander was influenced by Thales of Miletus, and went on to influence Pythagoras. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Anaximander?
Anaximander succeeded his teacher Thales as head of the Milesian school, where Anaximenes and perhaps Pythagoras studied under him. He is the first philosopher known to have written down his work, though only one fragment remains.
He held that nature runs by laws, as human societies do, and that the source of all things is the apeiron, the boundless. He tried to describe how the heavenly bodies move around the Earth, introduced the gnomon to Greece and drew a map of the world. Miletus also sent him to lead one of its colonies.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Anaximander?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC
Who did Anaximander influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Anaximander.
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
Two steps away from Anaximander
The second generation
- Through Pythagoras: Theano, Empedocles, Philolaus, Plato
Contemporaries of Anaximander
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Anaximander, with no direct line between them.
- Anaximenes of Miletus c. 586–526 BC
Anaximander by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 201
- Wikipedia languages
- 88 — #17 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Anaximander
- Who influenced Anaximander?
- Thales of Miletus.
- Who did Anaximander influence?
- Pythagoras.
- When did Anaximander live?
- c. 610–546 BC. The map files Anaximander under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Anaximander card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Anaximander in 88 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC