Core+Philososphies

A philosopher of nature, Anaximenes' most important and most popular philosophy is that he believed the primary substance of the universe was air. He was the first to propose this theory and it was not accepted at first, but was then widely accepted in the scientific community. He also was the first to state that a rainbow was really light refracting off water particles in the air. Anaximenes also produced the doctrine of change which states that when air is more or less condensed it forms water, fire, rock, and all other things in nature. One other belief of Anaximenes is the origin of the cosmos which explains the formation of earth and the other stars and planets through air from the heavens.

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