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	Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Thales proposed answers to a number of questions about the earth: the question of its support; its shape; its size; and the cause of earthquakes; the dates of the solstices; the size of the sun and moon.
		Second, Thales, who is acknowledged as an observer of the heavens, would have observed that stars which are visible in a certain locality may not be visible further to the north or south, a phenomena which could be explained within the understanding of a spherical earth.
		It is testified that it was from Egypt that Thales acquired the rudiments of geometry.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/t/thales.htm (9340 words)

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	Thales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thales is the first to have set on foot the investigation of nature by the Greeks; although so many others preceded him, in Theophrastos's opinion he so far surpassed them as to cause them to be forgotten.
		Thales said that the mind in the universe is god, and the all is endowed with soul and is full of spirits ; and its divine moving power pervades the elementary water.
		Thales thinks that the Etesian winds blowing against Egypt raise the mass of the Nile, because its outflow is beaten back by the swelling of the sea which lies over against its mouth.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/presoc/thales.htm (1498 words)

	Thales - MSN Encarta
		Thales became famed for his knowledge of astronomy after predicting the eclipse of the sun that occurred on May 28, 585 bc.
		According to Thales, the original principle of all things is water, from which everything proceeds and into which everything is again resolved.
		Before Thales, explanations of the universe were mythological, and his concentration on the basic physical substance of the world marks the birth of scientific thought.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761570735 (153 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Thales of Miletus
		According to the Greek thinker Apollodorus, Thales was born in 624; the Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius placed his death in the 58th Olympiad (548-545) at the age of 78.
		The claim that Thales was the founder of European philosophy rests primarily on Aristotle, who wrote that Thales was the first to suggest a single material substratum for the universe, namely, water, or moisture.
		Thales' significance lies less in his choice of water as the essential substance than in his attempt to explain nature by the simplification of phenomena and in his search for causes within nature itself rather than in the caprices of anthropomorphic gods.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/THALES_BIO.html (571 words)

	Thales
		Thales of Miletus, the acknowledged founder of Greek mathematics and philosophy, was also an astronomer, and is the first known Greek scientist.
		Plutarch said "Thales apparently, was the only one of these whose wisdom stepped, in speculation, beyond the limits of practical utility: the rest acquired the name of wisdom in politics." Thales believed water was the origin of all things and that the earth was a flat disc, simply floating on water.
		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".
	www.math.sfu.ca /histmath/Europe/Euclid300BC/thales.html (570 words)

	GNU Thales
		Thales can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/thales/ [via http] and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/thales/ [via FTP].
		The main discussion list is , and is used to discuss all aspects of Thales, including development and porting.
		GNU Thales is currently being maintained by Klaus Weiss .
	www.gnu.org /software/thales (355 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Thales believed that the Earth is a flat disk that floats on an endless expanse of water and all things come to be from water.
		Thales is believed to have been the teacher of Anaximander and he is the first natural philosopher in the Ionian (Milesian) School.
		Thales is also said to have discovered a method of measuring the distance to a ship at sea.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~don.allen/history/thales2/thales2.html (589 words)

	Thales: First Philosopher/Scientist
		Thales' idea that the earth floats on water is probably derived from earlier near-eastern, possibly Egyptian myth.
		Thales generalized these special cases, and in this sense is the father of mathematics as a science, e.g.
		Thales is at least as significant for the shape of his project as he is for his actual philosophical (as well as political and mathematical) accomplishments.
	www.drury.edu /ess/History/Ancient/Thales2.html (786 words)

	Thales. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Thales taught that everything in nature is composed of one basic stuff, which he thought to be water.
		Prior to Thales, mythology had been used to explain the nature of the physical world; the significance of Thales thus lies not in his answer but in his approach.
		B.C. Thales studied practical as well as speculative problems and was acknowledged one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece for his exhortation to unity among the Ionian Greeks.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/Thales.html (188 words)

	Thales of Miletus, Mathematics and Life
		Thales may have been able to observe that at a certain position of the sun an objects height is equal to the length of its shadow.
		Thales has chosen Water for the Primordial Substance the so-called “Arche”, Anaximenes of Miletus Air to describe the One Life which animates it and Heraclitus of Ephesus maintained that the one Principle underlying all physical phenomena is Fire.
		Solon of Athens - Chilon of Sparta - Thales of Miletus - Bias of Priene - Cleobulus of Lindos
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Thales.htm (2199 words)

	Thales
		Thales was derided for his poverty, which was the result of his obsession with philosophy.
		It is said that Thales of Miletus, one of the seven wise men, was the first to undertake the study of physical philosophy.
		Perhaps Thales believes that as divine, water is permeated by mind or god, which is the moving force behind the permutations of water into all things; in other words, water is the soul of all things.
	www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/GrPhil/Thales.htm (1448 words)

	Thales biography
		Thales of Miletus was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline.
		Thales discovered how to obtain the height of pyramids and all other similar objects, namely, by measuring the shadow of the object at the time when a body and its shadow are equal in length.
		Thales is said to have travelled in Egypt, and to have thence brought to the Greeks the science of geometry.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Thales.html (2222 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Another, perhaps more reliable bit of information is that Thales did geometrical research, which enabled him to measure the seize of the pyramids of Egypt or the distance to a ship at sea.
		This seems to imply that Thales thought that the soul was the cause of movement.
		Although Thales' identification of the first principle with water was rather unfortunate, his idea to look for deeper causes was the true beginning of philosophy and science.
	www.livius.org /th/thales/thales.html (600 words)

	Thales lecture
		Thales was a native of Miletus, in Asia Minor.
		Thales’ claim that “The world is full of gods”; need not be a retreat to traditional religion.
		After all, Thales did not say that rocks in general are alive; magnets are special in that they can cause other things to move, which is just what things that we know to be alive (namely, ourselves) are capable of doing.
	faculty.washington.edu /smcohen/320/thales.htm (823 words)

	Thales (c. 640 - 550 B.C.)
		Thales is said to have taught geometry to the priests of Thebes.
		To Thales and his followers is due the geometry of the lines which bound them; a conception which gave an impulse to science comparable to that which the introduction of alphabetic characters gave to intellectual efforts generally.
		The two discoveries associated with his name are (1) that the sum of the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: and (2) that the sides of similar triangles are proportional; to which may be added the conception of geometrical loci.
	www.usefultrivia.com /biographies/thales_001.html (686 words)

	Thales - History for Kids!
		Thales was born in what's now Turkey, in the city of Miletus, about 630 BC, during the Archaic period.
		Thales was the first Greek scientist that we know of who did not try to explain the weather and the stars and planets as things controlled by the gods.
		According to Herodotus, in 585 BC Thales was the first person to successfully predict an eclipse of the sun (an eclipse which ended a war between the Lydians and the Persians).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/science/math/thales.htm (581 words)

	THALES
		Thales was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline.
		For it is said that Croesus was at a loss how his army should cross the river, since these bridges did not yet exist at this period; and that Thales, who was present in the army, made the river, which flowed on the left hand of the army, flow on the right hand also.
		Thales appears to hold either that (1) everything is essentially water, or that (1*) everything comes from water.
	home.wlu.edu /~mahonj/Ancient_Philosophers/Thales.htm (927 words)

	Thales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At that time, Thales and Panda were awarded to supply the contactless smartcard automatic fare collection system for the Nanjing metro, a contract that was signed in 2003.
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		Thales provides its expertise in integrated fare collection systems and technology, areas in which the company is a market leader.
	www.thales-transportservices.com /press/pr_view.php?id=194 (526 words)

	Chapter 8, 9: Thales
		Thales the "father of geometry," was a sort of Greek Benjamin Franklin.
		Thales was in an awkward spot and he had to think and think.
		Thales had inherited a salt mine The salt was transported from the mines by donkeys.
	www.anselm.edu /homepage/dbanach/thales.htm (3102 words)

	Thales in North America - About Us
		Thales has developed a permanent presence in North America over the past 45 years.
		The company’s North American corporate headquarters, Thales North America, Inc, is located in Alexandria, VA. North American activities generated sales of over $1 billion in 2004 and 1,500 employees are employed in the region.
		Drawing on its significant expertise as a prime and systems contractor, Thales is the partner of choice for airborne systems, communications systems, naval systems, air defense, secure operations and communications components, among other capabilities.
	www.thalesgroup-northamerica.com /about (310 words)

	Thales biography
		Thales of Miletus was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline.
		Thales seems to be the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician although his occupation was that of an engineer.
		Of course Thales could have used these geometrical methods for solving practical problems, having merely observed the properties and having no appreciation of what it means to prove a geometrical theorem.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Thales.html (2222 words)

	Thales Telecom Services - Company Profile
		Thales Telecommunications Services was formed in April 2002, by the merger of Thales Translink and Thales Fieldforce, to lead the way in the provision specialist telecoms services to the UK transport market.
		Thales Translink as an innovative and dynamic telecoms engineering company, focused on the design and development of UK telecoms networks, and the supply of operational and integrated telecoms solutions to the UK transport industry.
		Thales Translink also became the major partner in CityLink Telecommunications Limited, a special purpose company formed to operate, maintain and renew London Underground’s operational radio and transmission systems under a £1.2bn, 20 year Public Finance Initiative contract.
	www.thales-ts.com /profile_pedigree.cfm (477 words)

	Thales of Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a mathematician, Thales is famous for his theorems, three of which are attributed to him by Proclus: circle bisected by diameter; angles at base of isosceles triangle are equal vertically opposed angles are equal.
		Thales was the first Greek philosopher to speculate about the primary material element or source (arche) of all beings and cosmic phenomena, which he identified as
		This conclusion leads Thales to suggest that the real substance of soul and nature is water since water’s power is fundamentally kinetic.
	www.philosophy.gr /presocratics/thales.htm (381 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Thales was the first known philosopher, scientist and mathematician although his occupation was that of an engineer.
		The claims that Thales used the Babylonian saros, a cycle of length 18 years 10 days 8 hours, to predict the eclipse has been shown by Neugebauer to be highly unlikely since Neugebauer shows that the saros was an invention of Halley.
		Now of course Thales could have used these geometrical methods for solving practical problems having merely observed the properties and having no appreciation of what it means to prove a geometrical theorem.
	phoenicia.org /thales.html (2464 words)

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