Anaximander was the first philosophy who wrote down his ideas. Unfortunately, most of his writings have been lost. We do know some of them from Plato and Aristotle. He questioned mythology and substituted natural explanations for phenomena. He is credited with founding astronomy. He created the first gnomen which was a perpendicular sundial. He was also influential in the founding of geography. He drew the first map of the known world. He pictured two land masses – Europe and South Asia. They were separated from each other by the Mediterranean Sea. He envisioned the Earth as a cylinder floating in the center of the Universe.
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