Concept
Anaximenes (crater)
Overview
Anaximenes is a low-rimmed lunar impact crater near the north-northwest limb of the Moon. It lies to the west of the crater Philolaus, and northeast of Carpenter. To the northwest is Poncelet, close to the visible edge of the Moon.
The outer rim of Anaximenes has been eroded and worn into a roughly circular ring of ridges. The rim is lowest along the northeast side where Anaximenes partly overlaps the equally worn satellite crater Anaximenes G. There are also low cuts through the rim along the southeast, where the crater is attached to an unnamed plain in the surface.
The interior floor of Anaximenes is relatively level, compared to the typical lunar terrain. The inner surface is pock-marked by a multitude of tiny craterlets of various dimensions, the most notable having a diameter of 2-3 kilometers.
This crater is named after Greek astronomer Anaximenes of Miletus (585-528 B.C.). His name was introduced into lunar nomenclature in 1651 by Giovanni Ricciolli. Its designation was formally adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.
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Aristotle, that it is formed by the fifth body, and by the mixture of extreme heat and cold. CHAPTER XII. INTO HOW MANY CIRCLES IS THE HEAVEN DISTINGUISHED; OR, OF THE DIVISION OF HEAVEN. Thales, Pythagoras, and the followers of Pythagoras do distribute the universal globe of heaven into five circles, which they denominate zones; one of which is called the arctic circle, which is always conspicuous to us, another is…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
States what Anaximenes is; opens on Anaximenes.
Plutarch characterizes Anaximenes’ mode of representation which makes everything proceed from air—later on it was called ether—and resolve itself therein, better thus: “As our soul, which is air, holds us together (_συγρατεῖ_), one spirit (_πνεῦμα_) and air together likewise hold (_περιέχει_) the whole world together; spirit and air are synonymous.” Anaximenes shows very clearly the nature of his essence in the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Anaximenes several times; opens on Anaximenes.
The orbit of the Moon is not precisely in the same Plane with that of the Earth; but makes a very small angle with it. The points of intersection with those two Planes, are called, the Nodes of the Moon. These Nodes of the Moon are in continual motion, and in eighteen or nineteen years, revolve backwards, from east to west, through all the different points of the Ecliptic. For the Moon, after having finished her…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
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Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximenes of Miletus.