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 compressed air, full of fire, and they breathe out flames.
The earth is a cylinder, like a column of stone.
The apeiron is the principle and element of existing things.
The world is one, and it is generated from the apeiron.
The apeiron is the material cause of all things.
The apeiron is the source of the generation and destruction of all things.
The earth is in the middle, and it is spherical.
The sun is the purest fire.
The moon has its own light.
The first living beings were generated from the moist element, enclosed in thorny shells.
The apeiron is the boundless.
The earth is a cylinder, like a column of stone, and we live on one of its flat surfaces.
The stars are fiery bodies, and they are carried around by circles of air.
The apeiron is the divine, for it is immortal and indestructible.
The earth is suspended freely, not supported by anything.
The first animals were generated in the sea.
The moon is eclipsed when the opening in its fiery wheel is blocked.
The apeiron is the origin of all things.
The earth is a cylinder, whose height is one-third of its diameter.
The stars are fiery breathings.