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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Greek philosopher and astronomer who constructed the first precise geometrical model of the universe and speculated that it arose out of the separation of opposite qualities from one primordial substance.

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  • proper noun A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus; pupil of Thales and teacher of Anaximenes.

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  • noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)

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From Ancient Greek Ἀναξίμανδρος (Anaksimandros).

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