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Anaximenes (Sixth Century B.C.)

Anaximenes (an-aks-im’e-nēz). A Greek philosopher of the Ionian school; born at Miletus, and lived in the sixth century B.C. He was probably a pupil of Anaximander. He held that air is the original substance, from which, by thickening and thinning, all other elements, as fire, water, earth, are produced. But little is known of him, there being extant but a single fragment of his lost work ‘On Nature.’

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