He claimed that the stars were nearest to the Earth, followed by the moon, and then the Sun, and that all celestial bodies were like chariot wheels with rims of opaque vapor and filled with fire.
He claimed that the stars were nearest to the Earth, followed by the moon, and then the Sun, and that all celestial bodies were like chariot wheels with rims of opaque vapor and filled with fire. Aelian claims that he was the leader of a colony at Amphipolis, and he thought that the first animals were a type of thorny fish, logical since he believed that life originated from the moisture that covered the Earth before being dried up by the Sun. He also probably introduced the gnomon, erecting one of these sundials in Sparta, and the concept of cosmic justice. Famous for the statement that the universe is composed of the "boundless", something that he called the apeiron, FTP, this is what pre-Socratic philosopher of Miletus, a student of Thales who might be easily confused with Anaxagoras or Anaximenes.
He claimed that the stars were nearest to the Earth, followed by the moon, and then the Sun, and that all celestial bodies were like chariot wheels with rims of opaque vapor and filled with fire.
{Anaximander}