But Anaxagoras, who died around the time Plato was born, had a knack for astronomy, an area of study that requires careful observational and calculation to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

The philosopher Anaxagoras introduced "the scientific spirit" to Athens 2,500 years ago, planting the seeds of a philosophical tradition that led to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

Anaxagoras had the fortune to meet with the great Pericles, who was first his student and later close friend. Pericles was the statesman who led Athens into its great period of culture and ...

Anaxagoras said, “The rest have a portion of everything, but Mind is unlimited and self-ruled and is mixed with no thing, but is alone and by itself.

Anaxagoras, for instance, who used these discoveries to figure out how eclipses work. Aristotle later cites Anaxagoras’s theory as “a paradigm of scientific explanation,” Graham says.

The exact question posed by Anaxagoras was answered in 1882, when the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that squaring the circle is impossible with classical tools. He showed that pi ...

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