Thales of Miletus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:01:50 1 Life
00:06:20 1.1 Activities
00:09:51 1.2 Astronomy
00:12:13 1.3 Sagacity
00:14:08 2 Theories
00:17:32 2.1 Geometry
00:19:43 2.1.1 Thales' theorems
00:23:49 2.2 Water as a first principle
00:27:45 2.3 Beliefs in divinity
00:30:27 3 Influences
00:40:49 4 Interpretations
00:41:53 4.1 Theory
00:48:27 4.2 Rise of theoretical inquiry
00:49:19 4.3 Classification
00:50:38 5 Influence on others
00:52:37 6 Reliability of sources
01:02:35 7 See also



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Thales of Miletus (; Greek: Θαλῆς (ὁ Μιλήσιος), Thalēs, THAY-lees or TAH-lays; c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer from Miletus in ancient Greek Ionia.  He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, and he is otherwise historically recognized as the first individual in Western civilization known to have entertained and engaged in scientific philosophy. He can also be regarded as one of the first option traders.Thales is recognized for breaking from the use of mythology to explain the world and the universe, and instead explaining natural objects and phenomena by theories and hypotheses, in a precursor to modern science. Almost all the other pre-Socratic philosophers followed him in explaining nature as deriving from a unity of everything based on the existence of a single ultimate substance, instead of using mythological explanations. Aristotle regarded him as the founder of the Ionian School and reported Thales' hypothesis that the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter was a single material substance: water.In mathematics, Thales used geometry to calculate the heights of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' theorem. He is the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed.