Biography of Thales
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DescriptionThales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Wikipedia
Born: Miletus Ancient Theater, Turkey
Died: Miletus Ancient Theater, Turkey
Notable ideas: Water is the arche; Thales' theorem; Intercept theorem
Main interests: Ethics; metaphysics; mathematics; astronomy
Era: Pre-Socratic philosophy
Books: The Lives and Most Remarkable Maxims of the Antient Philosophers. [Translated from Fénelon's Abrégé Des Vies Des Anciens Philosophes.]
Children: Cybisthon
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Thales is recognized for breaking from the use of mythology to explain the world and the universe, and instead explaining natural objects and phenomena by naturalistic theories and hypotheses, in a precursor to modern science. Almost all the other pre-Socratic philosophers followed him in explaining nature as deriving from a unity of everything based on the existence of a single ultimate substance, instead of using mythological explanations. Aristotle regarded him as the founder of the Ionian School and reported Thales' hypothesis that the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter was a single material substance: water.
In mathematics, Thales used geometry to calculate the heights of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' theorem. He is the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed.
