Thales of Miletus

Type Figure Region Ionia Time c. -624–-546 Also known as Thales of Miletus、泰勒斯（米利都）

Thales was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer active in Miletus in Asia Minor in the 7th–6th centuries BCE, honored by later ages as …

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c. -624–-580Miletus · MiletusThales was born in Miletus, a commercial city-state on the eastern shore of the Aegean, and received his education in the flourishing Ionian cultural environment; according to classical accounts he traveled to Egypt and elsewhere, coming into contact with geometric and astronomical knowledge that laid the foundation for his later natural philosophy.
c. -580–-546Miletus · MiletusIn Miletus Thales proposed that the arche of all things is water, and attempted to explain astronomical and geographical phenomena by natural causes; Aristotle listed him first among the Milesian school, and later ages also regarded him as the first Greek philosopher, exerting a profound influence on successors such as Anaximander.

Sources

Thales — Patricia Curd (2022) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thales/
Thales of Miletus https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thales-of-Miletus