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5 [^10]: Today, still, it may seem strange to many that Anaximander's thought, starting from a wrong idea, such as the rotation of the sky, and leading to a wrong conclusion, such as the central position of the earth, should be considered justified and important because of the reasoning that joins the two. de Santillana p. 36 [^11]: In much of his account Anaximander has to preserve the language and images of his predecessors in order to make himself understood.

But we see that he is using all these images and is not controlled by them. de Santillana p. 38 [^12]: What made the Ionian way physical is that the cause of things is no longer imagined in a dramatic or mythical way, but as some kind of primordial ‑‑ and stable ‑‑ substance. de Santillana p. 22 [^13]: The Greek thinker who advanced the opinion stood behind the opinion himself.

He claimed objective validity for his statements; but they were his own personal contribution to knowledge and he was prepared to defend them as such. Earlier world‑views were based on sacred books; an orthodoxy to be maintained by authority. Farrington p. 18 [^14]: The great originality of the Iliad is that the events of which the story consists are represented as springing out of the character of the actors. Man the author of his own destiny not a puppet in the hands of fate.

Nothing could be more opposed to the fatalism of Chaldean astrology. The Iliad provided Ionian science with the background of secularism which was prerequisite. Farmington p. 17 [^15]: If the modern thinker discards the notion that he knows nature as it is, and realizes that he knows it only relative to his intellectual or symbolic framework, then he is in a position to recognize that his thinking is similar to that of the primitive. Levi‑Strauss, Schlagel p.

37 Giorgio de Santillana, Origins of Scientific Thought, The University of Chicago Press, [^1970]: Benjamin Farrington, Science in Antiquity, Oxford University Press, [^1969]: Philip Freund, Myths of Creation, Washington Square Press, NY, [^1965]: Richard Schlagel, From Myth to the Modern Mind, Vol I, Peter Lang, NY, [^1985]:…