Anaximenes : of Miletus (c.545 BC), Greek naturalist who taught that the single substance of the universe was Air; all other elements were produced by different degrees of its rarefication or condensation, thus earth was a flat disk floating in Air.
... first principle, ignored by the Greeks, but rediscovered by modern Science; 1 there follow air, fire, the igneous, radiant and electric energy, water, earth, the fluid and solid. The Sankhya, like Anaximenes, puts Air first of the four principles admitted by the Greeks, though it does not like him make it the original substance, and it thus differs from the order of Page 233 Heraclitus. But ...
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