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Born 624 BCE or 620 BCE
Died 548 BCE or 545 BCE
Subjects Of Study cosmology • matter • water

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Anaximenes Of Miletus
Greek philosopher
Anaximander
Anaximander
Greek philosopher
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
Greek philosopher
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher
Empedocles
Greek philosopher and scholar
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher and mathematician
Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
Xenophanes
Greek poet and philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Socrates
Socrates
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Lucian
Greek writer
Epicurus
Greek philosopher

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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