biography
pronunciation:
[anakzimeneez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–c.500 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, born in Miletus. He was the third of the three great Milesian thinkers, succeeding Thales and Anaximander. He posited that the first principle and basic form of matter was air, which could be transformed into other substances by a process of condensation and rarefaction. |
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