Anaximander
He proposed an infinite, undefined substance called the 'apeiron' as the origin of the cosmos and a geocentric model.
Quotes by Anaximander
The world is a cosmos, an ordered whole, and it is beautiful and divine, and it is a living being with a soul.
The apeiron is the origin and element of all existing things; it is unlimited and indeterminate.
The earth is cylindrical in shape, like a stone column, and its height is one-third of its width.
The earth stays in place because of its equal distance from all things.
Man was born from creatures of a different kind, because other creatures are soon self-supporting, but man alone needs a long period of suckling. For this reason, he would not have survived if he had been like this at the beginning.
The sun is a circle twenty-eight times the size of the earth, like a chariot wheel, having a hollow felloe full of fire, and showing forth fire at a certain place through an opening as through the nozzle of a bellows.
The stars are wheels of fire, and the openings through which we see them are like holes in a pipe.
The moon is a circle nineteen times the size of the earth, like a chariot wheel, having a hollow felloe full of fire, and showing forth fire at a certain place through an opening as through the nozzle of a bellows.
From the eternal and ageless apeiron, all the heavens and all the worlds within them arose.
The separation of opposites (hot and cold, wet and dry) from the apeiron is the cause of all things.
The first principle is the apeiron, for it is neither water nor any other of the so-called elements, but some other indeterminate nature, from which all the heavens and the worlds within them arise.
The first living creatures were born in the sea and were covered with scales.
Rain is produced by the vapor drawn up from the earth by the sun.
The apeiron encompasses all things and steers all things.
The apeiron is the source from which things come into being and to which they return according to necessity, for they pay penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice in accordance with the ordering of time.
The stars are fixed in crystalline spheres.
Eclipses of the sun occur when the opening for the sun's fire is blocked.
Eclipses of the moon occur when the opening for the moon's fire is blocked.
The earth is in the middle of the cosmos.
The apeiron has no beginning and no end.