ABSTRACT
Born: c. 500 B.C.; Clazomenae, Anatolia Died: c. 428 B.C.; Lampsacus Areas of Achievement: Philosophy, natural history, and science Contribution: By devising a philosophical system to explain the origins and nature of
the physical universe which overcame the paradoxes and inconsistencies of earlier systems, Anaxagoras provided an indispensable bridge between the pre-Socratic philosophers of the archaic period of Greek history and the full flowering of philosophy during the Golden Age of Greece.
