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Thales of Miletus (/ ˈθeɪliːz / THAY-leez; Ancient Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece. Beginning in eighteenth-century historiography, [1] 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 ... Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca. 624 – 546 B.C.E.), also known as Thales the Milesian, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Since Aristotle credited him with being the first philosopher (Metaphysics 983b6), Thales has been known to be the first representative of Western philosophy. Contrary to polytheistic Greek mythology, which ascribed social and natural phenomena to the arbitrary will, tricks, anger, and jealousy of the gods, Thales ... Thales of Miletus lived in Ancient Greece. He was the first scientist in history. Thales looked for patterns in nature to explain the way the world worked rather than believing everything happened only because one of the Greek gods commanded it. He replaced superstitions with science. He was the first person to use deductive logic to find new results in geometry and, through requiring proof of theorems, took mathematics to a new, higher level. In general what we know of him was written ... Thales of Miletus was an illustrious pre-Socratic Greek mathematician, astronomer and a philosopher. Even Aristotle regarded him as the first philosopher in Greek tradition. Furthermore, he was the first scholarly figure in the Western world to be involved in scientific philosophy.
