41. Index Of Ancient Greek Philosophers - Scientists Within this period the Ionian school of natural philosophy was founded by Thalesof Miletus. PhilosophersScientists. thales of miletus (624-560 BC). http://www.ics.forth.gr/~vsiris/ancient_greeks/presocratics.html

PreSocratics (7th - 5th century B.C.) Period marking the begining of science, as well as the development of literature, arts, politics, and philosophy. During these years, the city-states (polis in Greek) flourish. These include the Sparta and Athens. Within this period the Ionian school of natural philosophy was founded by Thales of Miletus . This is considered the first school for speculating about nature in a scientific way, hence signifies the birth of science. The Pythagorean brotherhood is formed by Pythagoras of Samos . This society performed a great deal of progress in mathematics, but also had mystical beliefs. In addition to the Ionian and Pythagorian, other schools of this period include the Eleatic , the Atomists, and the Sophists All philosophers - scientists up to Democritus are considered to be PreSocratics. Philosophers-Scientists Thales of Miletus (624-560 B.C.). Astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. Learned astronomy from the Babylonians. Founder of the Ionian school of natural philosophy. Predicted the solar eclipse on May 28, 585. Proved general geometric propositions on angles and triangles. Considered water to be the basis of all matter. He believed that the Earth floated in water. Used the laws of prospectives to calculate the height of the pyramids. Links: Thales of Miletus, Encyclopedia Britannica

42. Thales Of Miletus A Wise Man , thales of miletus. Western Philosophy? Now, what has the accumulationof capital got to do with the hydor (Water) of thales of miletus? http://www.franz-lee.org/files/praxistheory00002.html

HISTORY OF WISDOM BOOK ONE Ancient Greek Philosophy By Franz J. T. Lee Merida, Venezuela, 2002. CHAPTER I WATER A "Wise Man", Thales of Miletus "Western" Philosophy? Generally, all "thought" that is not born in the "Cradle" of "Western Civilization" that is, all intellectual and rational reflections prior to Thales are not considered as being "Ancient Philosophy"; for this very reason, everything else is classified as mythology, theosophy, animism, superstition or black magic. In the introduction, we indicated that this is simply inborn arrogance or well-bred ignorance. Of course, nowadays as byproduct of the European alma mater , even "Bantu Philosophy" is being taught at African Universities, but an African Plato or Hegel, Marx or Bloch, will never see the Visionary Light, will never leave the "Cave of Underdevelopment". With sophia or wisdom this arrogant attitude surely has very little to do. However, since the advent of Labour on Planet Earth, no matter where it was born, essentially it was generated as a non-relation, and henceforth it persists as maltreated Nature vis-a-vis perverted Society, as Alienation

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45. Thales Of Miletus Mark Weghorst. thales of miletus. Known as the first Greek philosopher.-First to determine sun’s course from solstice to solstice. http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~devriepl/phy211/greeks/thales2.htm

Mark Weghorst Thales of Miletus -Known as the first Greek philosopher -First to determine sun’s course from solstice to solstice -Discovered season’s, and that there are 365 days in a year -Came up with five important mathematical theorems "Water is the principle, or the element, of things" -First to predict eclipses -Calculated pyramids height by using shadows. First person to calculate the height of any pyramid Thales of Miletus was certainly a great philosopher and mathematician whose contributions helped other philosophers and mathematicians along the way. Some other Thales stories were that he helped stop the war between the Medes and the Lydians by predicting an eclipse. It is also believed that Thales traveled to Egypt and was the one who brought geometry to the Greeks. Thales also used his knowledge to make money. He predicted the olive crop one year to be very large and bought all the olive presses. When the crop arrived like Thales had planed he made a fortune. All of these contributions made by Thales helped pave the road for other great philosophers and mathematicians along the way

46. Protagorean.com: Thales b thales of miletus (6 the century BC)/. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. http//www.forthnet.gr/presocratics/thaln.htm.b thales of miletus (c. 624 548 BC). http://www.protagorean.com/thales.html

P ROTAGOREAN.COM P ROTAGOREAN.COM PrOtagoRean.com PROT A GOR E AN.COM THALES b R b b b Thales of Miletus (6 the century BC)/ The Oxford Companion to Philosophy http://www.xrefer.com/entry/553692 b Thales/Encarta Encyclopedia b Thales (636-546))/The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/thales.htm b Thales http://www.thephilosophyguide.com/philosophers/thales.htm b Thales http://www.forthnet.gr/presocratics/thaln.htm b Thales of Miletus (c. 624 - 548 B.C.) http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/ user/g/w/gwj/www/html_dox/Thales.html b Thales Fragments and Commentaryfrom The First Philosophers of Greece (1898)/by Arthur Fairbanks http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/thales.htm b Thales from Early Greek Philosophy (1920)/by John Burnet http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch1a.htm b Thales http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/thales.htm b Thales of Miletus c.585 B.C.E. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/thales.html b Thales of Miletus [as Mathematician] http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html b Hegel on Thales: from Lectures on the History of Philosophy http://philos.wright.edu/Dept/PHL/Class/PS/GWFHtha.html

47. Thales Technologies Thales From Miletus thales of miletus. 588 500 BC. An anecdote delivered by Aristotlein Politics describes that Thales was reproached for his poverty http://www.thalestech.com/Thales.htm

Thales of Miletus 588 - 500 B.C An anecdote delivered by Aristotle in Politics describes that Thales was reproached for his poverty by the rich merchants in Miletus, who thought that philosophy and science was of no use. By his skill in the stars while it was yet winter, Thales concluded that there would be a bumper crop of olives in the coming year. Thus, having a little money, he gave deposits for the use of all the olive presses in Miletus and Chios, which he hired at a low price because no one bid against him. When the harvest time came, and many were wanted all at once and of a sudden, he let them out at any rate which he pleased and made a quantity of money. Thus he showed the world that philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort.

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49. Thales Of Miletus thales of miletus. 600 BC. Thales was the first mathematician. He was Greek andlived in Miletus around 600 BC Thales was the father of geometry. http://www.mvrhs.org/netsite/school/departments/Math/Jen's folder/thales_of_mile

Thales Of Miletus 600 B.C. Thales was the first mathematician. He was Greek and lived in Miletus around 600 B.C. Thales was the father of geometry. He was also the only mathematician in the seven wise men of Antiquity. He started traveling around and learning stuff about math. When he was in Egypt, he demonstrated his geometric skills for them and they were really impressed. He calculated the size of the great pyramid by using similar triangles. Thales was a poor guy who made a bet with his friend that he could become rich. He bought all these olive presses and squashed the olives on a good harvest year and got a lot of Olive Oil. Then Thales rented the presses out and charged a lot of money because he had all the presses there was nothing anyone could do. Thales had six things he could prove: 2.Every angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle. 3.If two straight lines intersect,the opposite angles formed are congruent. 4.The base angle of an isoceles triangle are equal. 5.The sides of similar triangles are proportional.

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51. Thales Proclus. thales of miletus, the acknowledged founder of Greek mathematics andphilosophy, was also an astronomer, and is the first known Greek scientist. http://www.math.sfu.ca/histmath/Europe/Euclid300BC/THALES.HTML

Thales 640 - 542 B.C.E. "Thales was the first to go to Egypt and bring back to Greece this study [geometry]; he himself discovered many propositions, and disclosed the underlying principles of many others to his successors, in some cases his method being more general, in others more empirical." Proclus Plato told of Thales falling into a well while gazing at the stars, and that a Thracian slave-girl laughed at him, saying "he wanted to know what happens in the heavens but he did not want to see what was in front of his own feet". At his death, the leadership of the Ionian school passed on to Anaximander, probably a pupil of his, responsible for bringing to use in Greek, the gnomon, an instrument used for determining noon, the solstices and the equinoxes. Thales died about 542 B.C.E. in his home town of Miletus. [Main] [Thales] [Pythagoras] [Hippocrates] ... [Maps]

52. Greek Mathematics Geometry. The first great Greek mathematician is thales of miletus(624547 BC). He brought founder of Astronomy. thales of miletus. http://members.fortunecity.com/kokhuitan/greek.html

Era of Greek Mathematics The Greeks are responsible for initial explosion of Mathematical ideas. For several centuries, Greek mathematics reign the mathematical world, with great advances in Number Theory, the Theory of Equation, and in particular Geometry. The first great Greek mathematician is Thales of Miletus (624-547 BC). He brought the knowledge of Egyptian Geometry to the Greeks and discovered several theorems in elementary Geometry. He predicted a Solar Eclipse in 585 BC and could calculate the height of a pyramid, as well as how far a ship is from land. One of his pupils, the Greek philosopher, Anaximander of Miletus (610-546 BC), is considered the founder of Astronomy. Perhaps the most prominent Greek mathematicians is Pythagoras of Samos (569-475 BC). His ideas were greatly influenced by Thales and Anaximander. His school of thought practiced great secrecy and he (and his followers, called Pythagoreans) believe everything in the world can be reduced to numbers. This idea stemmed from Pythagoras' observations in Music, Mathematics and Astronomy. E.g. Pythagoras noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonics in which the lengths of the strings are in ratios of whole numbers. In fact, he contributed greatly to the mathematical theory of music. He had the notion of Odd and Even Numbers, Triangular Numbers, Perfect Numbers, etc. In particular, he is well known today for his Pythagoras Theorem. Although this theorem is known to the Babylonians and Chinese long before Pythagoras, he seemed to be the first person to provide a proof of it.

53. SparkNotes: Presocratics 4. thales of miletus 1.1 Introduction. Thales was born in the city ofMiletus in Ionia around 685 BC He was a well known public figure http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/presocratics/section1.html

Home Buy Guides Books ... More Resources for Presocratics Message Board Printable Version more... document.write ( "" + "" + "" + "" + "" + "" + "" + ""); document.write ( "" + "" + "" + "" + ""); - Navigate Here - Context Important Terms Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Thales of Miletus Anaximander of Miletus Anaximenes of Miletus Xenophanes of Colophon Heraclitus Parmenides of Elea The Eleatics: Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos Empedocles Anaxagoras The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus Important Quotations Explained Key Facts Study Questions and Suggested Essay Topics Quiz Suggestions for Further Reading Thales of Miletus Introduction In between these various activities Thales also found the time to develop the first known philosophical system. Unfortunately, no fragments of his original writings have survived to the present day, and all that we know about his thought boils down to five statements found in Aristotle. From these five statements we can identify four basic tenets of Thales' world view: (1) The world derives from water; (2) The world rests on water; (3) The world is full of gods; (4) Soul produces motion. Aristotle offers up even these snippets very hesitantly, suggesting that even by his time Thales was known only by report and not through any first-hand evidence. The World Derives from Water (fragment A12) With this notion, Thales ushers in the single most important preoccupation of the Presocratics: the problem of

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55. Miletus thales of miletus The skilful man is superior to the strong man. ; Don't come to a conclusion before listening to both sides. ; http://www.turizm.net/cities/miletus/

Home Turkey Hotels Blue Cruise ... Search Welcome to Turizm.net! M I L E T U S Situated at the mouth of the Meander in the south of the province of Ionia in Western Anatolia, the ancient city of Miletus was the oldest and the most powerful of the twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor. It also founded over ten colonies on the shores of the Marmara and the Black Sea, while its commercial activities extended as far as Egypt. Its schools made a very great contribution to the intellectual and scholarly development of the Mediterranean world and one cannot talk of Miletus without mention of the great contributions to geometry and science made by Thales, one of the greatest scholars produced by the city. Miletus is also renowned as the first city to which the principles of modern town-planning were applied. The gridplan introduced by Hippodamos was later to form the basis of town-planning in all Roman cities. As a result of the silting caused by the alluvium washed down by the Meander the city now lies at a distance of several kilometres from the sea. The fact that Miletus formerly possessed four separate harbours well indicates the important role played by the Meander in the history of the city. The Miletus alphabet was accepted as the normal script employed in writing ancient Greek. The following are a few of the philosophical views put forward by Milesian philosophers:

56. AmIAnnoying.com In 2002, out of 243 votes 51.85% thought thales of miletus was annoying! Thalesof Miletus, The Résumé. Occupation Philosopher/Astronomer/Opportunist. http://www.amiannoying.com/(plhmh155qxmledvku002dk45)/2002/view.aspx?ID=6055

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60. Carroné-Lee Bruiners SCI199Y – L0111. Professor ER Seaquist. thales of miletus An InfluentialAstronomer. Thales was born in Miletus in Greek Ionia (modern day Turkey). http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~seaquist/sci199y/presentations/bruin1.html

Carroné-Lee Bruiners Professor E.R. Seaquist Thales of Miletus: An Influential Astronomer Thales was born in Miletus in Greek Ionia (modern day Turkey). It is believed that he was born approximately in 625 BCD and died approximately in 547 BCE [i] , but like most early philosophers, there is very little documentation about his early years which makes it unclear the exact dates of his birth and death. Thales is the first Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician. He was believed to have founded the Ionian/Milesian School of natural philosophy and both Anaximander and Pythagoras studied under him. He was considered very influential to the ancient Greeks and he was named one of the Seven Sages (wise men) of Greece, being the only philosopher named before Socrates. [ii] It is unclear whether or not he had any writings because none of it survived, if it existed at all, and it was not available in Aristotle’s time. Thales traveled extensively to Chaledea, Babylon and to Egypt. While in Babylon and Egypt, it was believed that he learned the art of surveying [iii] as well as geometry, which he brought to Ionia and applied his knowledge to astronomy and to the introduction of elementary trigonometry. Also, Thales was also the first person not to rely on the supernatural (the gods and goddesses) to explain natural phenomena.

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