1. Anaximander - Noun
2. Anaximander - Proper 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)
Source: WordNetAnaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else. Diogenes Laërtius
Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land. Plutarch
Anaximander seems to express his belief that a natural order ensures balance between these elements, that where there was fire, ashes (earth) now exist. Source: Internet
Anaximander (6th century BC) was the first philosopher who used the term arche for that which writers from Aristotle on call the "substratum". Source: Internet
Anaximander was the first astronomer to consider the Sun as a huge mass, and consequently, to realize how far from Earth it might be, and the first to present a system where the celestial bodies turned at different distances. Source: Internet
Herbert Ernest Cushman claims Anaximander has "the first European philosophical conception of god", A beginner's history of philosophy, Volume 1 pg. 24 Because of this, they did not hesitate to speak for a "Greek miracle". Source: Internet