Researchers from University of Rostock detail new studies and findings in the area of ocean research. Ecology, Environment & Conservation (8/14/2009)
...of short seamounts (maximum barotropic tidal current velocities similar to 5cm s(-1)); and (2) a site next to the Anaximenes seamount in the Eastern Mediterranean (EMed) (maximum barotropic tidal current velocities similar to 0.5 cm s(-1...

Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge. (book reviews) Insight on the News (5/30/1994)
...encountered in England in the 1920s. "I am so sick of the Greeks and the canting solemnities that prove how we owe the Ford car to Anaximenes! he exclaimed. Hand was not overly stuffy about his judicial status, either. He was an eager backstage adviser to Theodore...

Derivation of the Newton's law of gravitation based on a fluid mechanical singularity model of particles.(Report) Progress in Physics (10/1/2008)
...mechanical interpretations of gravitational phenomena. Many philosophers and scientists, such as Laozi [32], Thales, Anaximenes, believed that everything in the universe is made of a kind of fundamental substance [9]. Descartes was the first to bring...

Issues Surrounding Logos in Heraclitus, Fragment B56. Michigan Academician (7/1/2000)
...little more is known about Heraclitus' obscure life. But unlike fellow Ionian philosophers--Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes--of whom virtually no writings survive, we have a significant number of fragments or close paraphrases from Heraclitus...

Value and the dynamics of being *. The Review of Metaphysics (9/1/2007)
...how Intelligence orders the world and "arranges each thing in the way best for it." (1) Presocratics like Thales and Anaximenes thought they had caught sight of an underlying unity and ultimate causal ground in the matter of things. Their quest survives...

The Singing Cure: An Introduction to Voice Movement Therapy. Notes (6/1/1996)
...Hippocrates the original depiction of the theory of the four primordial elements: earth, air, fire, and water, when, in fact, Anaximenes and Heraclitus spoke of this concept more than a century earlier. Newham's criticism of operatic technique in Europe and...

Causality in Islamic philosophy: the arguments of Ibn Sina.(Report) Islam & Science (6/22/2009)
...world by discovering the basic matter out of which all things are made, such as water (for Thales), air (according to Anaximenes), or fire (in Heraclitus' view). On the other hand, others, like Plato, often spoke as if the explanation of all...

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. (Summaries And Comments).(Review) The Review of Metaphysics (12/1/2000)
...Anaximander recognizes the need for generality in good explanation and anticipates the Principle of Sufficient Reason; Anaximenes uses concrete explanatory analogies; Xenophanes rejects polytheistic causality in favor of that of one Deity; Heraclitus...

Apex or ex-ape?(Critical essay) The Humanist (1/1/2010)
...evolution, you are accepting a fundamentally different version of how life came about. Like early Greek philosophers Thales and Anaximenes, who tried to figure out the origin of the world, the author of the biblical creation story did his best but he was wrong...