FTP identify this Milesian philosopher best known for asserting that apeiron, or the "boundless" was the fundamental makeup of the world, the student of Thales.
He oddly asserted that the stars were closer to the earth than the sun or moon and argued that the earth was cylindrically shaped and stationary because of its position equidistant from the orb of stars. He was allegedly the first person to create a map of the world and posited that the sun was a burning rock. An excerpt from his On Nature quoted by Simplicius also happens to be the earliest extant passage in western philosophy. FTP identify this Milesian philosopher best known for asserting that apeiron, or the "boundless" was the fundamental makeup of the world, the student of Thales.
He oddly asserted that the stars were closer to the earth than the sun or moon and argued that the earth was cylindrically shaped and stationary because of its position equidistant from the orb of stars.
{Anaximander}.