Anaxagoras Anaxagoras was born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor. His life was sometimes great and sometimes hurtful, Anaxagoras learnt about the new educations that were tak
…ing place in philosophy, he was a rich man but he gave up all the money he had and focused on philosophy. He examined the sun and the moon and he said that "Everything has a natural explanation, the Moon is not a god but a great rock, and Sun a hot rock". He was imprisoned for telling everyone that the sun and the moon were not any gods. Life wasn't a game that time. People also said he was the birth of physics. He was famous for explaining the different phases of the moon. (MORE)