Anaximander (610-547 BC) was born in Miletus, philosopher and ancient Greek mathematician. Like Thales of Miletus is considered one of the thinkers most outstanding. Other was astronomer and scientist, discoveries such as the of the solstices, equinoxes and the obliquity of the Zodiac are attributed to him. (Pliny, natural history II, III) and that unveiled an outline of geometry (Suidas) however the stories show us man inventor. Inventor of nomon, Builder of world map, and the Charter of the heavens, predicting an earthquake, also political organizer and soldier, placed in front of a colonizing expedition in Miletus, in Apollonia. (history III, 17) His treatise on nature was the first philosophical writing in prose.
We can observe in Anaximander to a materialist scientist, applied to natural things matters. As it happens with physics. His theories are the principles of scientific materialism which seeks to explain the phenomena of matter in its different phases. apeiron. i.e. the infinite, undetermined, the eternal, what governs the world being substance and law. Today we can get an idea clearer about the theory of Anaximander because because of our century we possess a greater knowledge, for this reason the concepts are broader even when they are reduced to the same figure of the language.If you observe young people as it intervenes the force of gravity in this beautiful phenomenon Anaximander raises the search of the Arche or principle of things given by the very principles of sensible experience .he here to our surprise, a thinker with a rigorous thinking, which supports its analysis on the physical senses structure or the brain as a primary function of the body. This thinker analyzed that the senses are more objective when describing an object. In this way intuition not departs the sensitive idea that we have perceived phenomenon. since sometimes the reality of the experience is deformed because of our emotions.