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Anaxagoras

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An·ax·ag·o·ras  (nk-sgr-s) 500?-428 b.c.
Greek philosopher who correctly explained solar eclipses and held that objects are composed of infinitesimal particles that each contain mixtures of all the qualities of the object.
Anaxagoras  (nk-sgr-s) 500?-428 bce.
Greek philosopher and astronomer who was the first to explain eclipses correctly. He also stated that all matter was composed of infinitesimally small particles, that the Sun and stars were glowing stones, and that the Moon took its light from the Sun.
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Noun1.Anaxagoras - a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)


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But Anaxagoras had been dead thirty years, and was beyond the reach of persecution.
Apology by Plato View in context
Anaxagoras said that he was in the world to admire the sun.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Here we catch a reminiscence both of the omoiomere, or similar particles of Anaxagoras, and of the world-animal of the Timaeus.
Meno by Plato View in context
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