Melissus of Samos
c. 470 BCE–c. 430 BCE · Samos
Third Eleatic; systematized Parmenidean monism in prose, arguing Being is infinite, one, and unchanging.
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Samos
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About Samos
A powerful Ionian island once ruled by the tyrant Polycrates—birthplace of Pythagoras, home of the Eleatic monist Melissus, and the island whose son Aristarchus first dared to set the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the cosmos.
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