Anaxagoras Of Clazomenae Two different sets of notes from a lecture at the University of Toronto. Explores the relation of this thinker to the thought of his time and ours. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dhutchin/s26a.htm
Extractions: back to PHL200Y home page back to course outline Topic #A8 26 September 2001 Scribes: John Kohler and Thomas Narsingh These minutes were spoken on 28 September; for another version, go to the unspoken minutes Class began with Professor Hutchinson addressing a question posed by a student. The student wanted to know the distinction between the cosmos and the universe This was an important question since these terms were used of by many of the ancient philosophers. Hutchinson began his response by first considering the definition of universe. By definition, a unicycle has and only can have one wheel. In the same way the universe can only be singular. This can also be seen in the word panorama meaning to see all around. Thus, universe is necessarily one thing that is all encompassing. Next, Hutchinson considered the definition of cosmos. Words like cosmetics, having to do with the idea of arrangement or adornment, are related to it. Cosmos is defined as an arranged part of the whole. Hence, we can think of the stars, the earth and moon (which in part make up a cosmos) as an arranged part of the whole universe. Ancient Philosophers were divided between the ideas of many cosmos or one cosmos.
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Extractions: (c. 500- c 428 BC) Anaxagoras, born at Clazomenae which is near Smyrna, was a credible mathematician with stronger interests in philosophy. He was one of the first philosophers to settle in Athens, but he is of interest to us primarily because of his reported interest in squaring the circle . Whether this is true or not, it sets the earliest recorded time that the squaring the circle problem was recognized as a purely mathematical problem. This is also the time of the formation of the three great problems of antiquity - squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, and doubling the cube. A brief biography: Anaxagoras was imprisoned for asserting that the sun was not a diety but a huge red-hot stone as large as all of Peloponnesus and the moon borrowed its light from the sun. At the ripe age of seventy-two he was condemned to death for advocating the Persian cause. Anaxagoras represents bold, rational inquiry. He represented the Greek trademark: ``the desire to know". His principle interest was in philosophy, where his main belief was that ``reason rules the world." He wrote the book On Nature , the first widely circulated book on scientific subjects. Cost: 1 drachma.
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Extractions: Greek philosopher who correctly explained the phases of the Moon and eclipses of Moon and Sun in terms of their movements. He believed that the heaven and Earth were brought into existence by the same processes and composed of the same materials. In trying to explain the processes of nutrition and growth, he theorized that every substance contains portions of every other.
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Extractions: The citizens of Athens ... passed a law permitting impeachment of those who did not practice religion and taught theories about 'the things on high'. Under this law they persecuted Anaxagoras, who was accused of teaching that the sun was a red-hot stone and the moon was earth. We should examine this teaching of Anaxagoras about the sun more closely for, although it was used as a reason to put him in prison, it is a most remarkable teaching. It was based on his doctrine of "nous" which is translated as "mind" or "reason". Initially "all things were together" and matter was some homogeneous mixture. The nous set up a vortex in this mixture. The rotation system is present. Anaxagoras also shows an understanding of centrifugal force which again shows the major scientific insights that he possessed. Anaxagoras proposed that the moon shines by reflected light from the "red-hot stone" which was the sun, the first such recorded claim. Showing great genius he was also then able to take the next step and become the first to explain correctly the reason for eclipses of the sun and moon. His explanation of eclipses of the sun is completely correct but he did spoil his explanation of eclipses of the moon by proposing that in addition to being caused by the shadow of the earth, there were other dark bodies between the earth and the moon which also caused eclipses of the moon. It is a little unclear why he felt it necessary to postulate the existence of these bodies but it does not detract from this major breakthrough in mathematical astronomy. There is also other evidence to suggest that Anaxagoras had applied geometry to the study of astronomy.
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Extractions: Anaxagoras of Clazomenae was described by Proclus , the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD as (see for example [4]):- After Pythagoras Anaxagoras of Clazomenae dealt with many questions in geometry... Anaxagoras was an Ionian, born in the neighbourhood of Smyrna in what today is Turkey. We know few details of his early life, but certainly he lived the first part of his life in Ionia where he learnt about the new studies that were taking place there in philosophy and the new found enthusiasm for a scientific study of the world. He came from a rich family but he gave up his wealth. As Heath writes in [4]:- He neglected his possessions, which were considerable, in order to devote himself to science. Although Ionia had produced philosophers such as Pythagoras , up to the time of Anaxagoras this new study of knowledge had not spread to Athens. Anaxagoras is famed as the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians when he moved there in about 480 BC. During Anaxagoras's stay in Athens
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Extractions: Anaxagoras of Clazomenae was described by Proclus , the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD as (see for example [4]):- After Pythagoras Anaxagoras of Clazomenae dealt with many questions in geometry... Anaxagoras was an Ionian, born in the neighbourhood of Smyrna in what today is Turkey. We know few details of his early life, but certainly he lived the first part of his life in Ionia where he learnt about the new studies that were taking place there in philosophy and the new found enthusiasm for a scientific study of the world. He came from a rich family but he gave up his wealth. As Heath writes in [4]:- He neglected his possessions, which were considerable, in order to devote himself to science. Although Ionia had produced philosophers such as Pythagoras , up to the time of Anaxagoras this new study of knowledge had not spread to Athens. Anaxagoras is famed as the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians when he moved there in about 480 BC. During Anaxagoras's stay in Athens
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Extractions: Presocratics Our western philosophical tradition began in ancient Greece in the 6th century BCE. The first philosophers are called "Presocratics" which designates that they came before Socrates. The Presocratics were from either the eastern or western regions of the Greek world. Athens home of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is in the central Greek region and was late in joining the philosophical game. The Presocratic's most distinguishing feature is emphasis on questions of physics; indeed, Aristotle refers to them as "Investigators of Nature". Their scientific interests included mathematics, astronomy, and biology. As the first philosophers, though, they emphasized the rational unity of things, and rejected mythological explanations of the world. Only fragments of the original writings of the presocratics survive, in some cases merely a single sentence. The knowledge we have of them derives from accounts of early philosophers, such as Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics The Opinions of the Physicists by Aristotle's pupil Theophratus, and Simplicius, a Neoplatonist who compiled existing quotes.
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Extractions: Greek philosopher from Ionia who gave up his wealth to pursue a life of study. At the age of twenty, he moved to Athens and effectively established it as the new center of Greek philosophy. For three decades he helped shape the thoughts of a number of illustrious pupils, including Pericles the statesman, Euripides the playwright, and possibly even Socrates. Anaxagoras's explanations of the Moon's light, eclipses, earthquakes, meteors, rainbows, sound, and wind seem surprisingly modern, and he put forward some provocative ideas that bore on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He thought, for instance, that the Moon has "a surface in some places lofty, in others hollow" and that a race of humans dwelt there ( Moon, life on ). He also postulated that the Sun was a brightly glowing rock "bigger than the Peloponnese" and that the stars were other suns lying at such a distance that they appeared to give out no heat. When he was about thirty-three, a meteorite big enough to fill a wagon landed in broad daylight near the town of Aegispotami. Anaxagoras caused a sensation by claiming it had come from the Sun. To him, there was no difficulty in thinking about the Sun and Moon as sizable, physical objects rather than as deities. In fact, in place of the traditional pantheon of gods, he argued that there was just a single eternal intelligence, or "Nous", which pervades the cosmos. The Athenian authorities, smarting from a recent military defeat at the hands of the Persians, were in no mood to be subverted from within by such heretical views and arrested Anaxagoras. Charged with impiety, he was sentenced to death. Fortunately Pericles, the most respected man in Athens, put in a good word for him and the sentence was commuted to exile. Anaxagoras retired to Lampsacus on the Dardanelles where he continued teaching for another twenty years. See
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Extractions: His writings on astronomy are particularly interesting. He is said to have predicted the fall of a meteorite at Aegospotami in 467/466 BC: for many years this stone - which was the size of a mill-stone - was shown off to visitors by the people of Abydos on the Hellespont. On another occasion he went to Olympia all dressed in leather, to protect himself from the rainstorm which he had predicted, and which did indeed occur shortly afterwards. His theories are resumed in his treatise "On Nature", where he says that there is no "coming-into-being" or "passing-away", but rather aggregations and segregations of matter. The universe was in the beginning a chaos of innumerable "seeds", which "Mind" ordered into shape in a series of "successions". "On Nature" also contains his commentaries on the fall of the meteorite at Aegospotami. In his "Cosmogony" he argued that the universe was created by a whirlwind created by nous (God): up to a point his work underlies the theories of Kant and Laplace. He also stated that the moon is not self-luminous, but takes its light from the sun; he correctly interpreted lunar and solar eclipses; and he correctly ascribed the flooding of the Nile to the melting of the snows in Ethiopia. Finally, he wrote at length on the squaring of the circle.
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Extractions: Contents Updated: Monday, January 24, 2000 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae went to Athens about 480 BC. He claimed "the sun and stars are flaming stones which are carried round by the revolution of the ether." He claimed the sun is larger than the Peloponnesus, the moon shines with the light of the sun, and he explained a large meteorite which fell on Aegospotamoi as a result of a landslide on one of the heavenly bodies. He was charged with impiety and narrowly escaped being exiled from Athens. The desire to avoid such a fate is why many of the pre-Socratic philosophers spoke of gods that they had no place for in their systems—they tipped a nod to popular prejudice. Thus even Euripides said Empedocles had reduced "the all seeing Helios, who traversed the sky every day in his flashing chariot and was the awful witness of men's most sacred oaths, to the status of a lifeless lump of glowing stone." Anaxagoras also maintained the existence of an ordering principle as well as a material substance, and while regarding the latter as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, qualitatively distinguished, he conceived divine reason or Mind (
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Extractions: Well Worth a Visit Anaxagoras was born in Clazomenae at the coast of Asia Minor around 500 BC. He spent much of his life in Athens, where he was associated with Pericles, the leading statesman of the age, and with Euripides, the writer of tragedies. At the time of the two Persian wars (490 BC and 480 BC) the greatness of Athens was at its peak after the city was victorious two times and gained great prestige in Greece. A golden age started; the city became rich and prospered under the wise leadership of Pericles, who governed, by the free choice of its citizens, for about thirty years until his fall in 430 BC. "Pericles fell in, it seems with Anaxagoras, who was a scientific man; and satiating himself with the theory of things on high, and having attained to a knowledge of the true nature of intellect and folly, which were just what the discourses of Anaxagoras were mainly about, he drew from that source whatever was of a nature to further him in the art of speech." (Plato about Anaxagoras). With his fall of Pericles' government, Anaxagoras was urged to leave Athens. He fled to Lampsacus in the Troad where he died, an honoured guest, in 428 BC. Anaxagoras is said to have written only one book. As a follower of the old Milesian school he tried to revive the thoughts of Anaximenses in the post-Parmenidean period. Anaxagoras agreed with Empedocles that all coming into and going out of being is merely the composition and decomposition of existing substances, but he rejected Empedocles' Love and Strife theory, probably because there was no scientific reason that spoke for it.
