Anaximander
He proposed an infinite, undefined substance called the 'apeiron' as the origin of the cosmos and a geocentric model.
Quotes by Anaximander
The stars are fixed in the heavens.
The sun is a god.
The moon is a goddess.
The sea is a living entity.
The boundless is the divine principle.
The boundless is the origin of all things.
The earth is a sphere.
The stars are other worlds.
The sun is a star.
The moon is a planet.
From the boundless comes all things, and to the boundless they return.
The Earth hangs free in the air, supported by nothing, for it is at rest in the center of the cosmos.
The apeiron is eternal and ageless, the source of all generation and destruction.
Stars, sun, and moon are wheels of fire, eclipsed by rims that open and close.
Whence they come into being is also whence they pass away, according to necessity; for they give justice and recompense to one another for their injustice according to the order of time.
The cosmos is infinite, without beginning or end, governed by the eternal justice of the apeiron.
All things arise from the one and the same principle, the unlimited, which is neither water nor air, but something other.
The Earth is a cylinder, three times as wide as it is deep, floating freely in space.
Opposites are born from the mist produced by the eternal motion of the apeiron.
The sun is a circle twenty-seven times the size of the Earth, encircled by a bellows of fire.