Anaxagoras

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. When was Anaxagoras born?Circa 500 BC
2. Where was Anaxagoras born?Clazomenae, Ionia (modern-day Turkey)
3. What is the career?Philosopher and early scientific thinker; exiled from Athens due to impiety charges

Pre-Socratic Philosophy: The earliest phase of Greek philosophy, preceding Socrates, focused on cosmology and the nature of reality.
Homoiomeries: Anaxagoras's theory that all matter is composed of infinitely divisible 'seeds,' each containing a part of everything else.
Nous: Anaxagoras's concept of an ordering, intelligent principle that initiated and governs the cosmos.
Panspermia: The hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, and comets.