------------+-------------+-----------+------------------------------- | |Approximate| NAME. | Place. | date | Speciality. | | B. C. | ------------+-------------+-----------+------------------------------- Thales. |Miletus | 600 |Cosmological } | (Ionia). | | Theory as to} | | | the Primary } Water. | | | Substance } Anaximander.| " | 570 | " the Boundless. Anaximenes. | " | 500 | " Air. Pythagoras. |Samos (near | 500 | " Numbers: | the Ionian | | "a Cosmos built | coast). | | up of | | | geometrical | | | figures," | | | or (Grote, | | | Plato, i, 12) | | | "generated | | | out of number." Xenophanes. |Colophon | 500 | Founder of the | (Ionia). | | Eleatic school. Heraclitus. |Ephesus | 500 | " Fire. | (Ionia). | | Empedocles. |Agrigentum | 450 | " Fire, Air, Earth, | (Sicily). | | and Water: | | | ruled by Love | | | and Strife. Anaxagoras. |Clazomenae | 450 | Nous. | (Ionia). | | Leucippus | | | Democritus. |Abdera | 460 |Formulators of the Atomic | (Thrace). | | Theory. Aristotle. |Stagira | 350 |Naturalist. | (Macedonia).| | Epicurus. |Samos. | 300 |Expounder of the Atomic | | | Theory and Ethical | | | Philosopher. Lucretius. |Rome. | 50 |Interpreter of Epicurus and | | | Empedocles: the first | | | Anthropologist. ------------+-------------+-----------+------------------------------- _Part II._ THE ARREST OF INQUIRY. A. D. 50-A. D. 400. 1. _From the Early Christian Period to the Time of Augustine._