Dutch scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy who has written on Anaximander's cosmology and the early development of astronomical thought.
Contributed to the reconstruction of Anaximander's cosmological model — particularly his account of the earth as a cylinder floating in space, the first naturalistic cosmology.
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