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[2] He was the first to draw on a map the outline of land and sea, and he constructed a globe as well.
His exposition of his doctrines took the form of a summary which no doubt came into the hands, among others, of Apollodorus of Athens. He says in his
Chronology that in the second year of the 58th Olympiad
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Anaximander was sixty-four, and that he died not long afterwards. Thus he flourished almost at the same time as Polycrates the tyrant of Samos.
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There is a story that the boys laughed at his singing, and that, when he heard of it, he rejoined,
Then to please the boys I must improve my singing.
There is another Anaximander, also of Miletus, a historian who wrote in the Ionic dialect.
Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.
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