On this episode of pplpod, we travel back to ancient Miletus to explore the mind of Anaximander (c. 610 – c. 546 BC), a student of Thales who is often credited as the "Father of Cosmology",. We dive into his revolutionary concept of the apeiron—the infinite, boundless mass from which all things originate and to which they return,.

Join us as we discuss:

• The First Cosmological Revolution: Anaximander’s "bold" realization that the Earth floats unsupported in the center of the infinite, held in place only by its indifference,.

• Evolutionary Origins: His speculative theory that humans originally emerged from fish-like animals in the water,.

• Mapping the World: How he became the first Greek to publish a map of the entire inhabited world and introduced the gnomon to ...