Thales of Miletus
625?-547? B.C.
Greek natural philosopher, engineer, and mathematician whom later Greek mathematicians credit with bringing Egyptian mathematics to Greece, thereby founding the study ...
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Thales of Miletus
630?-547 B.C.
Greek Engineer
Thales is remembered as a founder of rational scientific inquiry and one of the first in a long and distinguished series of Greek scientists in the ancie...
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Thales of Miletus(Sixth Century Bce)
Thales of Miletus is widely depicted in ancient sources as a pioneering rationalist and the founding father of Greek philosophy, science, and mathematics. Famous f...
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The Greek natural philosopher Thales (ca. 624-ca. 545 BC) founded the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers.Thales was descended, according to the historian Herodotus, from Phoenicians who had settl...
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Thales of Miletuswas the first known Greek philosopher and mathematician who introduced the basic concepts of geometryto the Greeks. A man of many talents, Thales was a successful merchant and founded...
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Considered one of the seven wise men of Greece, and known as the founder of Western philosophy, Thales was the earliest known Greek to have taken a scientific interest in mathematics, and the union of...
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Thales of Miletus (Sixth Century Bce)
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