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anaxagoras
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n. An ancient Greek philosopher (c. 500 BC – 428 BC) from Clazomenae, who is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force.
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Anaxagoras is a young lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon . It lies across the larger and more heavily worn crater Goldschmidt . To the south-southeast is Epigenes , and due south is the worn remains of Birmingham . Anaxagoras ...
Usage examples of anaxagoras.
When Anaxagoras was very young, he predicted that sooner or later a piece of the sun would break off and fall to earth.
Whenever they wish to embarrass Pericles politically, they accuse his friend Anaxagoras of blasphemy and impiety and all the usual nonsense .
Like everyone in Athens, Anaxagoras knew that Callias had promptly killed the Persian.
Whenever Anaxagoras suggests that the sun and moon are simply great fiery stones rotating in the heavens, he runs a very real risk of being denounced for impiety.
More to the point, since there is now, demonstrably, a perfect peace between Persia and Athens, Anaxagoras cannot be guilty of medism.
Besides, even if the treaty were discussable, the Athenians are still capable of finding Anaxagoras guilty of medism, or of anything else that strikes their fancy.
Meanwhile Anaxagoras is in prison, and at the next meeting of the assembly he will be prosecuted by Thucydides.
I use the word that Anaxagoras invented for the infinitesimal bits of matter that make up creation.
Ambalika took my hand and together we stared at what Anaxagoras thinks is a rock, and I wondered, as I often do, just where it was that we all came from.
I had not yet met Anaxagoras, I could not tell her that what she took to be a handful of pure light was nothing but a chunk of fiery metal on its way to earth.
Finally, when the assembly decided that Anaxagoras was neither a medizer nor an atheist, they were simply showing their confidence in Pericles.
Remember the anecdote you told me yesterday of Anaxagoras, who, when asked where his country was, pointed with his finger to heaven.
The place was Anaxagoras Crater in the northern lunar highlands on my home timeline of Europe-American.
A few hours of misery was heaven compared to a summons from Garsich Mersaich, the Watchman in charge of making sure that Anaxagoras Base got built soonest.
As soon as construction began on Anaxagoras Base, however, she had been drafted as the house expert on the local yokels and shipped to the Moon.