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Thales [ˈθeɪliːz] n (Biographies / Thales (?624 bc-?546 bc) M, Greek, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, SCIENCE: mathematician, SCIENCE: astronomer) ?624-?546 bc, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, born in Miletus. He held that water was the origin of all things and he predicted the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 bc
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From the time of Thales of Miletus, in the fifth century B. He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, "The Phrygian has spoken better than all. Or is there any invention of his, applicable to the arts or to human life, such as Thales the Milesian or Anacharsis the Scythian, and other ingenious men have conceived, which is attributed to him? |
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