Pre socratics

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European History

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Thales of Miletus (624-546)
triangle, pyramids, solar eclipse, everything is water
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Anaximander of Miletus (c. 550)
evolution from fish, indefinite primary substance, big moon \n and sun
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Anazimenes (520)
air, ear floats on air
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\n Heraclitus of Ephesus (d. 490)
“obscure”, thought everyone was dumb (even Homer!), religion \n is dumb, change is constant, tensions, unity of everything, we are made of fire, etc.
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Xenophanes of Colophon (565-475 BCE)
one god not like mortals
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Democritus of Abdera (460) and Leucippus of Miletus (450)
atomist
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Hippocrates of Cos (460-375)
medicine through observation, prediction of disease, notes, no \n religion
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (500-427)
friend of Pericles, everything is natural, sun and moon \n are not gods