Anaximenes of Miletus#Anaximenes
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#Anaximenes
Anaximenes of Miletus · c. 586–526 BCE
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“Anaximenes didn't just name the world's basic ingredient. He proposed a mechanism — squeeze air and you get cloud, water, stone; loosen it and you get fire — and in doing so invented a whole style of explanation that science still runs on.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Everything is air at different degrees of compression — and differences of amount are enough to explain differences of kind.”
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