PHILOSOPHER

Anaxagoras

500 BC - 428 BC

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Anaxagoras (; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anaxagoras has received more than 1,104,470 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Anaxagoras is the 51st most popular philosopher (up from 58th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Anaxagoras was most famous for his theory that the sun is a red-hot stone, and that the moon is made of earth.

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  • 82.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anaxagoras ranks 51 out of 1,267. Before him are Origen, Protagoras, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Amos Comenius, Lucretius, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Plotinus, Michel Foucault, Thomas More, Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, and Zeno of Elea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Anaxagoras ranks 1. After him are Myron, Leucippus, Artaxerxes I of Persia, Xanthippe, Ezra, Artemisia I of Caria, Brennus, Ictinus, Cratylus, Cyrus the Younger, and Xerxes II of Persia. Among people deceased in 428 BC, Anaxagoras ranks 1. After him is Phormio.

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    Anaxagoras

    PHILOSOPHER

    500 BC - 428 BC

    HPI: 82.05

    Rank: 1

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    Phormio

    POLITICIAN

    450 BC - 428 BC

    HPI: 56.53

    Rank: 2

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Anaxagoras ranks 31 out of 1,347. Before him are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Luke the Evangelist (31), Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), and Mehmed IV (1642). After him are Osman II (1604), Hesiod (-800), John Chrysostom (349), Bayezid I (1354), Mehmed I (1386), and Rachel (-3500).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Anaxagoras ranks 5. Before him are Heraclitus (-535), Thales of Miletus (-623), Diogenes (-404), and Anaximander (-610). After him are Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Leucippus (-500), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), and Chrysippus (-281).

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