Webit was 2,500 years ago this year that a philosopher named anaxagoras arrived in athens, greece.

Webthe greeks were a curious, exploratory people who loved debate, discussion, and investigation into how the world worked.

Webin 345 b. c. e. , two men took a trip that changed the way we make sense of the natural world.

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Weba history of ancient greek physics.

Webanaxagoras, born in the ionian town of clazomenae, was the first natural philosopher to reside in athens and promote the ionian philosophical outlook there.

Webduring the fifty years between the persian wars and the peloponnesian war, athens, in particular, shone with a flourishing and confident greek culture:.

Aristotle was a greek philosopher, a student of plato and teacher of alexander the great.

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