Question

Thales and effect of some various conditions on it...​

Answer 1

Thales of Miletus lived in Ancient Greece. He was the first scientist in history.

Thales looked for patterns in nature to explain the way the world worked rather than believing everything happened only because one of the Greek gods commanded it. He replaced superstitions with science.

He was the first person to use deductive logic to find new results in geometry and, through requiring proof of theorems, took mathematics to a new, higher level.

In general what we know of him was written hundreds of years after he lived, by Aristotle for example.

When pronouncing his name, we say thail-eez, emphasizing the first syllable.

There may have been other scientists before Thales, but if there were, we do not know their names.