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 | | 547 BC) was the second of the physical philosophers of Ionia, a citizen of Miletus, a companion or pupil of Thales, and teacher of Anaximenes of Miletus. |
| | Aelian makes him the leader of the Milesian colony to Amphipolis, and hence some have inferred that he was a prominent citizen. |
| | The computations of Apollodorus of Athens have fixed his birth in 611, and his death shortly after 547 B.C. Ancient sources represent him as a successful student of astronomy and geography, and an early proponent of exact science. |
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