Anaximenes of Miletus: Pioneer of Natural Philosophy

Welcome, everyone! Today we travel back over 2,500 years to ancient Miletus, where a pioneering mind named Anaximenes set out to answer one of humanity’s oldest questions: What is everything made of? While his predecessor Thales pointed to water and his fellow Milesian, Anaximander, invoked the boundless ‘apeiron,’ Anaximenes proposed something far more familiar—air. He believed that all matter, from the blazing fire of the sun to the solid rock beneath our feet, is simply air in different states of density and motion. In this video, we’ll explore how Anaximenes’ airy theory shaped early scientific thought, influenced later philosophers, and still echoes in modern ideas about the elements that compose our universe.

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