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Anaximenes (bug)
Anaximenes () may refer to: *Anaximenes of Lampsacus (4th century BC), Greek rhetorician and historian *Anaximenes of Miletus (6th century BC), Greek pre-Socratic philosopher *Anaximenes (crater) Anaximenes is a low-rimmed lunar impact crater near the north-northwest limb of the Moon. It lies to the west of the crater Philolaus, and northeast of Carpenter. To the northwest is Poncelet The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of powe ..., a lunar crater {{disambiguation Human name disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaximenes Of Lampsacus
Anaximenes of Lampsacus (; ; 320 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and historian. He was one of the teachers of Alexander the Great and accompanied him on his campaigns. Family His father was named Aristocles (). His nephew (son of his sister), was also named Anaximenes and was a historian. Rhetorical works Anaximenes was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and ZoilusD.A. Russell, "Anaximenes (2)," ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'', 3rd ed., rev., 2003. and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer. As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school. He is generally regarded as the author of the '' Rhetoric to Alexander'', an ''Art of Rhetoric'' included in the traditional corpus of Aristotle's works. Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in ''Institutio Oratoria'3.4.9 as the Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized. This attribution has, however, been disputed by some scholars. Thhypothesisto Isocrates' ''Helen'' mentions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaximenes Of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Pre-Socratic philosophy, Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). He was the last of the three philosophers of the Ionian School (philosophy), Milesian School, after Thales of Miletus, Thales and Anaximander. These three are regarded by historians as the first philosophers of the Western world. Anaximenes is known for his belief that air is the ''arche'', or the basic element of the universe from which all things are created. Little is known of Anaximenes's life and work, as all of his original texts are lost. Historians and philosophers have reconstructed information about Anaximenes by interpreting texts about him by later writers. All three Milesian philosophers were monists who believed in a single foundational source of everything: Anaximenes believed it to be air, while Thales and Anaximander believed it to be water and Apeiron, an undefined infinity, respectively. It is generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaximenes (crater)
Anaximenes is a low-rimmed lunar impact crater near the north-northwest limb of the Moon. It lies to the west of the crater Philolaus, and northeast of Carpenter. To the northwest is Poncelet The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.François Cardarelli, ''Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: T ..., close to the visible edge of the Moon. The outer rim of Anaximenes has been eroded and worn into a roughly circular ring of ridges. The rim is lowest along the northeast side where Anaximenes partly overlaps the equally worn satellite crater Anaximenes G. There are also low cuts through the rim along the southeast, where the crater is attached to an unnamed plain in the surface. The interior floor of Anaximenes is relatively level, compared to the typical lunar terrain. The inner surface is pock-marked by a multitude of tiny craterlets of va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
