ABSTRACT
Anaximander too must have incurred considerable expenses in developing his famous pinax ; on the other hand, he certainly did not incur any expense for the work that led him to conclude that the sun completed its diurnal journey with a complementary path under the earth during the night, or to elaborate the notion of an Astronomical Unit, or to think about clouds on the model of wineskins, much less to invent the apeiron. There is not so much in common after all between the knowledge exhibited by the architects and the very different sort of knowledge achieved by a sophos.
