The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC)

Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-407?rskey=WRdmtF&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxagoras Authority - ancient
 Relationships: Democritus (ca. 460 BCE-ca. 370 BCE) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Anaxagoras
References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

14. Another describing the mighty Stone falling from the Clouds into Ægospotamos or the Goats River in Greece, which Antiquity could believe that Anaxagoras was able to foretell half a year before.