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Anaxagoras

lived from 499 BC to 428 BC

Anaxagoras was a Greek mathematician famed as the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians. He was imprisoned for claiming that the Sun was not a god and that the Moon reflected the Sun's light.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Anaxagoras/