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John Burnet: Early Greek Philosophy -- Thales
in the Ionian revolt, which suggest that the scientific men of miletus took up avery decided position in the stirring times that followed the death of thales.
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Extractions: 2. Origin The founder of the Milesian school, and therefore the first man of science, was Thales ; but all we can really be said to know of him comes from Herodotus , and the Tale of the Seven Wise Men was already in existence when he wrote. He says that Thales was of Phoenician descent, a statement which other writers explained by saying he belonged to a noble house descended from Cadmus and Agenor. Herodotus probably mentions the supposed descent of Thales simply because he was believed to have introduced certain improvements in navigation from Phoenicia. At any rate, his father's name, Examyes, lends no support to the view that he was a Semite. It is Carian, and the Carians had been almost completely assimilated by the Ionians. On the monuments we find Greek and Carian names alternating in the same families, while the name Thales is otherwise known as Cretan. There is therefore no reason to doubt that
Greece, Miletus And Thales - The Birth Of The Boundary Breakers - 3,000 B.c To 5
old fetters of affiliation and breaking down old boundaries. Thalesof miletus exemplified the heady nature of the new fluidities.
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Extractions: Howard Bloom A History of the Global Brain XIII Neolithic centers like Catal Huyuk left only wordless clues to the new forms of diversity boiling in the cauldron of late stone age cities. The time has come to skip ahead 5,000 years to municipalities which have left their tablets and their scrolls -artifacts whose calligraphy fills in the blank spots left by archaeology. There we can see new factors focussing the frenzies of the nascent global brain. Far below the surface of familiarity, these forces tapped the power lines of psychobiology, built new arenas where instincts could chorus in harmony, and rewrote the emotional scripts which transmogrify society. The catalysts for transformation would be three: freedom to escape group boundaries; ideas; and the games subcultures were about to learn to play. While some citizens of that far-Western Asian flank now known as Turkey mixed mud to erect the housing developments of Catal Huyuk, others rowed beyond the horizon of the Aegean Sea, came across Crete and the 30 islands of the Cyclades, put down roots and stayed. Sixty miles of sea did not stop the neolithic data rush: the settlers kept up with developments back on the Anatolian plains, importing the new art of wheat cultivation and cattle raising, then joining the trade loop of obsidian which helped make Catal Huyuk's stone craftsmen rich. Archaeological evidence suggests that at the same time, other Anatolians paddled their high-prowed boats to mainland Greece, where they found accomplished sailors who had been plying the waters, fetching obsidian from distant isles, and fishing tuna since roughly 12,000 b.c.
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thales from miletus thales from miletus (625 545 BC) (as one of the firstGreek thinkers) started to considerate the structure of the world.
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thales from miletus (625 545 BC) started to considerate the structureof the world as one of the first Greek thinkers. What he
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The Philosophy Of Thales
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Extractions: [Miletus, 624-546 BC] Western philosophy begins in the antiquity roughly at the same time when Western historiographers began to record history more or less systematically. This is of course no surprise. We may believe that earlier philosophers have existed, but their works would have been invariably lost. Historiography was supposedly invented by the Babylonians, before the Greeks, but we shall leave this question to the historians and continue with philosophy. Try to picture the early Greek civilization around 600 BC. Imagine yourself in a flourishing commercial town at the sunny coast of Ionia. The Greeks traded intensively with each other and with surrounding nations, thus many Greek city states accumulated considerable wealth and with it came art, science, and philosophy. However, there was trouble. The political climate was afflicting as a consequence of slavery and mercantilism. Greek cities were often ruled by ruthless tyrants - landowning aristocrats and superrich merchants who gave little importance to ethical considerations. Around 585 BC there lived a man in Miletus whose name was Thales, one of the Seven Wise men of Greece. Thales had traveled to Egypt to study the science of geometry. Somehow he must have refined the Egyptian methods, because when he came back to Miletus he surprised his contemporaries with his unusual mathematical abilities. Thales calculated the distance of a ship at sea from observations taken on two points on land and he knew how to determine the height of a pyramid from the length of its shadow. He became famous for predicting an eclipse in 585 BC.
Milet, Miletus - Hier Lehrte Einst Herr Thales
Translate this page Die antike Stadt Milet oder miletus war einst Heimat berühmter Männer und dieWiege abendländischer Philosophie. Hier wirkte thales von Milet, sowie
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Extractions: bei 1 - schlecht 2 - na ja... 3 - geht so 4 - fast gut 5 - OK 6 - gut 8 - sehr gut 9 - prima 10 - super! Priene Klick hier In der Zeit nach Alexander d. Gr. und unter der römischen Herrschaft erlebte Milet eine neue Blüte. Großartige Bauten prägten in dieser Phase das Bild der Stadt. Als vor über hundert Jahren der deutsche Archäologe Theodor Wiegand mit den Grabungen in Milet begann, legte er vor allem diese hellenistische und römische Stadt frei. Das ältere, "archaische" Milet fand er dagegen nicht. Vor zehn Jahren wurde die Suche nach dem "archaischen" Milet neu aufgenommen, nun von der Universität Bochum aus. Seitdem widmet sich eine neue Großgrabung Milet und seinem Territorium. Neue Ausgrabungen der deutschen Archäologen klären Fragen über die Ursprünge der wohl wichtigsten ionischen Stadt. Neben zahlreichen Institutionen ist auch das Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Universität Rostock an diesem Projekt beteiligt.
Thales
thales. Fragments and Commentary. Arthur Fairbanks, ed. and therefore the founder of Greek philosophy, was thales of Miletos. According to Diogenes Laertios, thales was born in the
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Extractions: Passages relating to Thales in the Doxographists According to Aristotle the founder of the Ionic physical philosophy, and therefore the founder of Greek philosophy, was Thales of Miletos. According to Diogenes Laertios, Thales was born in the first year of the thirty- fifth Olympiad (640 B.C.), and his death occurred in the fifty-eighth Olympiad (548-545 B.C.). He attained note as a scientific thinker and was regarded as the founder of Greek philosophy because he discarded mythical explanations of things, and asserted that a physical element, water, was the first principle of all things. There are various stories of his travels, and in connection with accounts of his travels in Egypt he is credited with introducing into Greece the knowledge of geometry. Tradition also claims that he was a statesman, and as a practical thinker he is classed as one of the seven wise men. A work entitled 'Nautical Astronomy' was ascribed to him, but it was recognised as spurious even in antiquity. Literature: F. Decker
Thales
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Galileo And Einstein: Early Greek Science: Thales To Plato
The first recorded important contributions to Greek science are from the city ofMiletus, near the coast of what is now Turkey, beginning with thales in about
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Extractions: Link to Previous Lecture For more details on the topics in this lecture, see Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle , by G. E. R. Lloyd, published by Norton. The first recorded important contributions to Greek science are from the city of Miletus, near the coast of what is now Turkey, beginning with Thales in about 585 B.C., followed by Anaximander about 555 B.C., then Anaximenes in 535 B.C. We shall argue below that these Milesians were the first to do real science, immediately recognizable as such to a modern scientist, as opposed to developing new technologies. The crucial contribution of Thales to scientific thought was the discovery of nature . By this, we mean the idea that the natural phenomena we see around us are explicable in terms of matter interacting by natural laws, and are not the results of arbitrary acts by gods. An example is Thales' theory of earthquakes, which was that the (presumed flat) earth is actually floating on a vast ocean, and disturbances in that ocean occasionally cause the earth to shake or even crack, just as they would a large boat. (Recall the Greeks were a seafaring nation.) The common Greek belief at the time was that the earthquakes were caused by the anger of Poseidon, god of the sea. Lightning was similarly the anger of Zeus. Later, Anaximander suggested lightning was caused by clouds being split up by the wind, which in fact is not far from the truth.
Solon By Plutarch
Theophrastus writes that it was first presented to Bias at Priene; and next to Thalesat miletus, and so through all it returned to Bias, and was afterwards
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Extractions: Solon by Plutarch Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. That's less then a penny per book! Click here for more information. Read, write, or comment on essays about Solon Search for books Search essays Now, when the Athenians were tired with a tedious and difficult war that they conducted against the Megarians for the island Salamis and made a law that it should be death for any man, by writing or speaking, to assert that the city ought to endeavour to recover it, Solon, vexed at the disgrace, and perceiving thousands of the youth wished for somebody to begin, but did not dare to stir first for fear of the law, counterfeited a distraction, and by his own family it was spread about the city that he was mad. He then secretly composed some elegiac verses, and getting them by heart, that it might seem extempore, ran out into the market-place with a cap upon his head, and, the people gathering about him, got upon the herald's stand, and sang that elegy which begins thus- - "I am a herald come from Salamis the fair
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