Over the past year I’ve been dedicating a substantial portion of my reading hours to the biological works of Aristotle, as well as the Timaeus of Plato in order to improve my understanding the history of the early development of natural philosophy – what would eventually become natural history. However in most every one of these works, reference is made to the ideas of those who came before. In some cases these are little more than names to us today. Even those who are well-read in ancient philosophy might be unfamiliar with what is known of the ideas of many pre-Socratic philosophers such as Anaxaminder, Anaxamines, and Leucippas.