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	Thales Of Miletus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THALES OF MILETUS (6 40-546 B.C.), Greek physical philosopher, son of Examyus and Cleobuline, is universally recog nized as the founder of Greek geometry, astronomy and philosophy.
		Aristotle's suggestion that Thales was led to his fundamental dogma by observation of the part which moisture plays in the production and the maintenance of life, and Simplicius's, that the impressibility and the binding power of water were perhaps also in his thoughts, are by admission purely conjectural..
		Simplicius's further suggestion that Thales conceived the element to be modified by thinning and thickening is plainly inconsistent with the statement of Theophrastus that the hypothesis in question was peculiar to Anaximenes.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /Thales_Of_Miletus (2331 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Thales of Miletus was the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician.
		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.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~don.allen/history/thales2/thales2.html (589 words)

	Thales of Miletus, Mathematics and Life
		Miletus was on the edge of interacting cultures: Greek, Mesopotamian and Egyptian, and was adjacent to the rich kingdom of Lydia.
		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.
		Solon of Athens - Chilon of Sparta - Thales of Miletus - Bias of Priene - Cleobulus of Lindos
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Thales.htm (2199 words)

	thales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thales "measured out the little stars of the Wain, by which the Phoenicians sail (Callimachus Iambus I, 52 in Kirk, Raven and Schofield)." Thales defended the practicality of philosophy by using his knowledge to predict a bumper crop of olives and to then possess a monopoly of olive presses.
		Thales demonstrated that: 1) a circle is bisected by diameter, 2) the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, 3)that opposite angles are equal and 4) that corresponding angles in a triangle have proportional sides.
		Thales contributed important mathematical and astronomical theorems and was a pioneer in the field of natural philosophy.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/thales.html (642 words)

	The Philosophy of Thales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		Thales was a mathematician rather than a philosopher, but in antiquity there was no differentiation between the natural sciences and philosophy; instead, mathematics, philosophy and science were closely related in the works of the early Greek philosophers.
		Thales was surely an exceptional man, but he was not the only thinker in ancient Greece whose thoughts were ahead of his time.
	www.thebigview.com /greeks/thales.html (878 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)

	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.
		Thales never invoked a power that was not present in nature itself, because he believed that he had recognized a force which underpinned the events of nature.
		Thales certainly did not 'discover' the seasons, but he may have identified the relationship between the solstices, the changing position during the year of the sun in the sky, and associated this with seasonal climatic changes.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/t/thales.htm (9340 words)

	THALES OF MILETUS - Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
		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.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /thales.htm (2041 words)

	-=[ Thales-Lehrinstitut - Heidelberg ]=- - Computerkurse, Marketing, Fremdsprachen, Nachhilfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thales is the first person about whom we know to propose explanations of natural phenomena which were materialistic rather than mythological or theological.
		Thales was much involved in the problems of astronomy and provided a number of explanations of cosmological events which traditionally involved supernatural entities e.g.
		Thales is acclaimed for having predicted an eclipse of the sun which occurred on 28 May 585 BCE.His questioning approach to the understanding of heavenly phenomena was the beginning of Greek astronomy.
	www.thales-lehrinstitut.de /english/thales.html (250 words)

	Thales - Obituary
		Thales of Miletus was a believer in the study of mathematics.
		Thales of Miletus foretold this eclipse, to the Ionians, yet it is not known exactly how he was able to predict such an infrequent event.
		Thales of Miletus had a life full of knowledge and understanding, and he taught everybody that lives in the ages after his, that enlightenment is the true road to knowledge.
	www.gsgis.k12.va.us /ourdepartments/thales/obituary.htm (276 words)

	SparkNotes: Presocratics: Thales of Miletus
		Thales was born in the city of Miletus in Ionia around 685 B.C. He was a well- known public figure in his day and was included on most lists naming the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Thales' claim that all things are full of gods, should not be read as a confirmation of the mythological idea that the supernatural gods control nature.
		Thales almost certainly identified water as something divine (all the Presocratics seemed to identify their physis with divinity), and so everything in the world, as derivatives of water, would have a divine element to them.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/presocratics/section1.html (1238 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Thales is the father of ancient Greek philosophy insofar as he was the first that raised the point that a material substance explains all the natural phenomena.
		Thales was an avid traveler as Hieronymus of Rhodes indicates in his report that Thales measured the pyramids by their shadow, having observed the time when our shadow is equal to our height.
		Thales was regarded as one of the "Seven Sages" of ancient Greece.
	www2.forthnet.gr /presocratics/thaln.htm (1152 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		Thales was the founder of Hellenic philosophy, and was regarded asone of the Seven Wise Men of Greece: he was a cosmologist, originatorof science and possibly was an originator of geometry in Hellas.Herodotus tells the story that Thales was a Phoenician by descent.
		Thales wasalso reputed to say that all things are full of gods, which isconnected with his belief that all things are water because of thedivinity associated with their 'fluid' fortunes.
		Thales is regarded as the first philosopher, and an inaugurator ofnatural science, because he attempted to explain the world usingnatural, rather than mythological entities.
	users.cnu.edu /jvcarr/ThaleBio.htm (519 words)

	Thales of Miletus (c.624-545 B.C.)
		Of these, Miletus, a large commercial center near the mouth of the Meander, was chief, and it was here that Thales lived and taught.
		He thought the answer was "water." But the crucial point is that he broke new ground by suggesting that the Earth and everything beyond it had a common physical basis and was subject to natural, rather than supernatural, laws.
		Thales is said to have proposed that the stars were other worlds – an important departure from the view that they were simply lights suspended from a celestial vault.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/T/Thales.html (324 words)

	TMTh:: THALES OF MILETUS
		One of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece, and chronologically the first of the Greek philosophers, Thales of Miletus is considered the founder of European philosophy and science.
		Thales was the first to abandon a blind empiricism and turn to a theoretical investigation of causes.
		Thales is also credited with the discovery that a piece of amber when rubbed attracts small light particles.
	www.tmth.edu.gr /en/aet/1/89.html (350 words)

	Thales of Miletus
		In Magnesia, a town north of Miletus, he observed the typical mineral that derives its name from the town, and argued that because magnets attracted iron, they had a soul.
		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 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 (2551 words)

	Thales biography
		Pamphile says that Thales, who learnt geometry from the Egyptians, was the first to describe on a circle a triangle which shall be right-angled, and that he sacrificed an ox (on the strength of the discovery).
		Aristotle, for example, relates a story of how Thales used his skills to deduce that the next season's olive crop would be a very large one.
		On the other hand Plato tells a story of how one night Thales was gazing at the sky as he walked and fell into a ditch.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Thales.html (2222 words)

	Introductory Remarks: Thales of Miletus, Father of Physics, by Robert Kern Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The philosopher and the physicist of today share another common link: the same man, Thales of Miletus, is claimed by each as the FATHER of his profession.
		Thales is said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which, according to Herodotus' History, occured at the close of the war between the Lydians and the Medes.
		In his metaphysics, Aristotle asserts that according to Thales the earth is superimposed upon water.
	www.rain.org /~rcurtis/thales.html (302 words)

	thales
		No writings of Thales survived, so we are relying completely on what others have written about himself and his work.
		Proclus, the one of the later major Greek philosophers who lived around 450AD wrote that Thales went to Egypt as a young man and brought back what he learnt there into Greek philosophy and mathematics.
		Thales was not the last Greek mathematician and philosopher who learnt from Egyptians.
	www.mathsisgoodforyou.com /people/thales.htm (244 words)

	Thales of Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thales had climbed a hill in the company of a Thracian handmaid, and while looking at the stars, tumbled off a cliff into the sea.
		Thales of Miletus lived from about 624 to about 546 BC.
		Thales may also have diverted a river to allow the passage of King Croesus.
	www.pantagruelion.com /p/s/10013.html (218 words)

	Thales of Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thales of Miletus was certainly a great philosopher and mathematician whose contributions helped other philosophers and mathematicians along the way.
		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.
	www.cas.muohio.edu /~devriepl/phy211/greeks/thales2.htm (194 words)

	Thales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diogenes Laërtius (1.22) and others say that Thales was the son of Examyas and Cleobulina and that they were of the Thelidae family (hence Thales), who were of noble Phoenician descent from Cadmus of ancient Thebes.
		Thales' father's name is of the Carian type, like Cheramyes and Panamyes.
		According to Diogenes Laërtius (1.25-26) there are two stories about Thales' family life, one that he married and had a son, Cybisthus or Cybisthon, or adopted his nephew of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thales (5766 words)

	Ancient Greece: Electricity and Magnetism
		Thales of Miletus (Θαλής ο Μιλήσιος)(from 640-610 to c.
		Thales is credited with discovering that amber rubbed with wool or fur attracts light bodies such as pieces of dry leaves or bits of straw, and observing that lodestone attracts iron and other lodestones.
		Thales except some first observations of electrical effects also showed the influence of a Magnet has to a piece of iron, showing that everything has some “soul”, “is filled with Gods” according to Aristotle's De Anima (On the Soul):
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/ElectroMagnet.htm (1124 words)

	Thales Of Miletus
		Miletus was a mighty colonial power, it conquered commercial cities from the Hellespont to the Black Sea (Euxine).
		In this macabre atmosphere Thales and "Western Philosophy" were born, and its modern up-graded, neo-fascist, globalized version still flows in this ancient "river of blood", in this "master and slave" vale of sorrows.
		But, as we were told, the viticulturer Thales very carefully had mixed the necessary pecuniary ingredients of science and philosophy with those of the ancient olive industry, and with superb marketing success, he had already indicated how Intellectual Labour could improve financial profits.
	www.homestead.com /pandemonium3/files/praxistheory00002.html (3918 words)

	Thales of Miletus. Cosmos of the Greek Philosophers
		he earliest cosmological theories of ancient Greece, would be those of Thales of Miletus, honored by his later peers as the very first philosopher and one of the Seven Sages, flourished circa 585 BC.
		Again according to Aristotle, he regarded also the lifeless things as having a soul, using the magnet's influence on iron as an argument for his case, which Aristotle interpreted as explanatory to Thales' idea that god is in all.
		Furthermore, Thales may have been the first to maintain the soul's immortality.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/thales.htm (127 words)

	GNU Thales : IRC to MySQL Gateway
		Here are some examples of networks using Thales on their websites : Reptile Rapport, Insiderz.de (here), Dwchat (here).
		This isn't provided as documentation, but only to let you understand how far you'll be able to go with Thales.
		Since MySQL's attributes aren't case sensitive, modes are preceded by a L when they are in Lower case, and by a U when they are in Upper case.
	www.gnu.org /software/thales (416 words)

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