Biograpy

Anaximenes lived a vivacious life in the mid. 6th century BCE and died in 528 BCE, in Miletus (in Ionia), ancient Greece. He was a young student of Anaximander and possibly of Thales. He continued their philosophical inquiries into the first principle, but got different results. Anaximenes wrote his views in a book, which survived into the Hellenistic period. He differed from his predecessors because Thales thought water was the source of all that exists, and Anaximander thought all things came from an unspecified boundless stuff, but he believed air had divine attributes. Anaximenes was the first recorded thinker who provided a theory of change and supported it with observation.