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Thales of Miletus — Wikipedia (en)

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Thales of Miletus ( THAY-leez; Ancient Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece. Beginning in eighteenth-century historiography, many came to regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, breaking from the prior use of mythology to explain the world and instead using natural philosophy. He is thus otherwise referred to as the first to have engaged in mathematics, science, and deductive reasoning. Thales's view that all of nature is based on the existence of a single ultimate substance, which he theorized to be water, was widely influential among the philosophers of his time. Thales thought the Earth floated on water. In mathematics, Thales is the namesake of Thales's theorem, and the intercept theorem can also be referred to as Thales's theorem. Thales was said to have calculated the heights of the pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. In science, Thales was an astronomer who reportedly predicted the weather and a solar eclipse. The discovery of the position of the constellation Ursa Major is also attributed to Thales, as well as the timings of the solstices and equinoxes. He was also an engineer, known for having allowed the Lydian army to cross the Halys River. Plutarch wrote that "at that time, Thales alone had raised philosophy from mere speculation to practice."

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «history of mathematics»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Thales of Miletus» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus
Wikidata Q36303: «filosofo, astronomo, matematico, fisico e politico greco antico» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36303
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