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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, c. 500 BCE - c. 428 BCE. Ancient Greek speculative philosopher who is believed to have presented a mechanistic view of the world.

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• Anaxagoras

  http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/anaxag.htm
  Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen, considering whether the teachings attributed to Anaxagoras are consistent.

• Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dhutchin/s26a.htm
  Two different sets of notes from a lecture at the University of Toronto. Explores the relation of this thinker to the thought of his time and ours.

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Anaxagoras

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/anaxagor/
  Article on the Greek philosopher responsible for giving philosophy a home at Athens and the first philosopher to introduce a spiritual principle which gives matter life and form.

• Life of Anaxagoras

  http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlanaxagoras.htm
  Section on this ancient thinker from the Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, as translated by C.D. Yonge.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Anaxagoras

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Anaxagoras.html
  Article discussing the astronomical ideas of this ancient thinker, with links to articles on related thinkers.

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