61. Thales Of Miletus Ancient Greek Philosophy thales of miletus. In this sonorous group always appeared thales of miletus, Solon of Athens and Bias of Priene. http://www.homestead.com/pandemonium3/files/praxistheory00002.html

HISTORY OF WISDOM BOOK ONE Ancient Greek Philosophy By Franz J. T. Lee Merida, Venezuela, 2003. CHAPTER I WATER A "Wise Man", Thales of Miletus "Western" Philosophy? Generally, all "thought" that is not born in the "Cradle" of "Western Civilization" that is, all intellectual and rational reflections prior to Thales are not considered as being "Ancient Philosophy"; for this very reason, everything else is classified as mythology, theosophy, animism, superstition or black magic. In the introduction, we indicated that this is simply inborn arrogance or well-bred ignorance. Of course, nowadays as byproduct of the European alma mater , even "Bantu Philosophy" is being taught at African Universities, but an African Plato or Hegel, Marx or Bloch, will never see the Visionary Light, will never leave the "Cave of Underdevelopment". With sophia or wisdom this arrogant attitude surely has very little to do. However, since the advent of Labour on Planet Earth, no matter where it was born, essentially it was generated as a non-relation, and henceforth it persists as maltreated Nature vis-a-vis perverted Society, as Alienation

62. Thales - Art History Online Reference And Guide Thales lived in the city of Miletus, in Ionia. thales of miletus from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy thales of miletus from the MacTutor http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Thales

63. A Short History Lesson thales of miletus used a moneyspinning device which, though it was ascribed to his prowess as a philosopher, is in principle open to anybody. http://www.theponytail.net/DOL/DOLnode9.htm

The Derivatives-on-Line Pages These pages are being moved! The newest version can be found here . Please update your bookmarks. If you are visiting the pages at www.qmul.ac.uk or www.qmw.ac.uk youmight be looking at an older version. Maintained by Kyriakos Chourdakis, QM University of London. Comments, etc. are very welcome. You can reach me here Vist my website at thePonyTail.net ! There you can find these pages in PDF, PS and other formats, relevant software, working papers, data, etc. Next: Why derivatives? Up: Introduction Previous: What is a derivative? Contents A short history lesson Thales of Miletus used a money-spinning device which, though it was ascribed to his prowess as a philosopher, is in principle open to anybody. The story is as follows: people had been saying reproachfully to him that philosophy was useless, as it had left him a poor man. But he, deducing from his knowledge of the stars that there would be a good crop of olives, while it was still winter and he had little a money to spare, used it to pay deposits on all the oil-presses in Miletus and Chios, thus securing their hire. This cost him only a small sum, as there were no other bidders. Then the time of the olive-harvest came, and as there was a sudden and simultaneous demand for oil-presses he hired them out at any price he liked to ask. He made a lot of money, and so demonstrated that it is easy for philosophers to become rich, if they want to; but that is not their objective in life. Derivative contracts in general and options in particular are not novel securities. It has been nearly 25 centuries since the above abstract appeared in Aristotle's Politics, describing the purchase of a call option on oil-presses. More recently, De La Vega (1688), in his account of the operation of the Amsterdam Exchange, describes traded contracts that exhibit striking similarities to the modern traded options.

64. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Thales Of Miletus Maybe in reply to Lisa Gardner HM thales of miletus ; Next in thread Christian Marinus Taisbak Re HM thales of miletus . Alfred Ross wrote http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug99/0204.html

Re: [HM] Thales of Miletus Antreas P. Hatzipolakis xpolakis@otenet.gr Sun, 29 Aug 1999 13:20:10 -0300 (GMT+3) Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Previous message: Maybe in reply to: Lisa Gardner: "[HM] Thales of Miletus" Next in thread: Christian Marinus Taisbak: "Re: [HM] Thales of Miletus" Alfred Ross wrote: JudyGardnr@aol.com The above quotation is found in an on-line lecture on Thales, namely: Eiichi Shimomisse: THE MILETIAN PHILOSOPHERS http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/greekphil/greek02.htm Let's quote a bigger part from that lecture: According to Herodotus I 170 in Diels-Kranz, This philosopher from Miletus was a "Phoenecian by ultimate descent..., although Herodotus implied further that almost all Miletians are racial mixtures of Greek and Carian. Further to see the elaborated by Diogenes Laertius I, 22. Now Thales, as Herodotus and Douris and Democritus say, was the son of Examyes as father and Cleobuline as mother, from the descendans of Theleus, who are Phoenilcian nobles from the line of Cadmus and Agenor... And he[Agenor] was enrolled as a citizen in

65. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Thales Of Miletus I m just about finished with a report on thales of miletus, but I have one thales of miletus was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline. His parents are said http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug99/0198.html

[HM] Thales of Miletus Lisa Gardner JudyGardnr@aol.com Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:15:40 EDT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: William C Waterhouse: "Re: [HM] Euler's powers (was: old and new indexes)" Previous message: Prof. Lueneburg: "Re: [HM] Euler's powers (was: old and new indexes)" Next in thread: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis: "Re: [HM] Thales of Miletus" Dear HM-members I'm just about finished with a report on Thales of Miletus, but I have one question that is still bothering me a lot. With really so little known about Thales, how is it that the historians 'definitely' have the names of his parents? http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Thales.html Thales of Miletus was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline. His parents are said by some to be from Miletus but others report that they were Phoenicians. J Longrigg writes in [1]:- Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). But the majority opinion considered him a true Milesian by descent, and of a distinguished family.

66. FNF: THALES Of Miletus:  THE FOUNDER OF (GREEK) PHILOSOPHY   (640 BC - 548 BC the founder of Greek philosophy, was thales of miletus. According to Diogenes Laertios, Thales was born in the first year of the thirty fifth Olympiad (640 http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_28856.htm

Educational Productivity Jón Erlendsson Thales - FNF: THALES of Miletus: THE FOUNDER OF (GREEK) PHILOSOPHY (640 BC - 548 BC ca) http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_28856.htm Thales GO NEWS PIC MAP ... History Thales of Miletus "According to Aristotle - the founder of the Ionic physical philosophy and therefore - the founder of Greek philosophy , was Thales of Miletus According to Diogenes Laertios, Thales was born in the first year of the thirty- fifth Olympiad (640 B.C.), and his death occurred in the fifty-eighth Olympiad (548-545 B.C.)." See Source Article MAPS http://www.top-biography.com/9081-Pythagoras/maps.htm GO_Ionian Map http://imagesoftheworld.org/Ephesus/churches2.gif http://www.1stmuse.com/Pergamon/map.gif ... http://www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/CP27Revelation.htm Troy GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Pergamum GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Ephesus GO NEWS PIC MAP ... http://imagesoftheworld.org/Ephesus/troas.html Ionian Uprising GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Persian Wars GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Thales of Miletus GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Diogenes Laertios GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP Miletus GO NEWS PIC MAP ... HELP NS: Nám og störf í RT verkfræði 2002: Heimasíða http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/es.htm

67. The First Electric Experiment. thales of miletus, a greek philosopher, noted (about 600 BC) that rubbing amber and a few other substances would enable them to attract feathers or bits of http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/1858/taletee.htm

Thales of Miletus. English Italiano Gif animation (248 KB). Thales of Miletus, a greek philosopher, noted (about 600 B.C.) that rubbing amber and a few other substances would enable them to attract feathers or bits of straw or leaves. This was the first reference pertaining to electricity that we know of. The first script on this experiment is in the Plato dialog named "Timeo". The roman Pliny the Elder wrote about similar experiment in A.D. 70 in his "Natural History". He also mentioned schocks given by a torpedo fish. William Gilbert - 1544 - 1603 - Index of arguments This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page

68. Geometry We will tell you about thales of miletus, Pythagorus of Samos, and Plato. thales of miletus. Thales was the first known philosopher and scientist. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2171/

This web site is about famous mathematicians that have contributed to the study of geometry. We will tell you about Thales of Miletus, Pythagorus of Samos, and Plato. Click on one of the following to view information: Thales of Miletus Pythagorus of Samos Plato THALES OF MILETUS Thales was the first known philosopher and scientist. But, the only problem is that none of his writing has survived it is hard to tell the facts from the myths. He was known also as a military advisor and an engineer, and a man of affairs as well. It is said that he predicted an eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C. He made a statement saying that the Earth floats on water, all things come to be from water, and all things somehow consist of water. Thales is traditionally concidered the teacher of Anaximander and the first figure in the Milesian school of pre-Socratic philosophy. PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS Pythagoras was a greek philosopher who was responsable for important developments in the history of mathematics, the theory of music, and astronomy. He was a reliiigious leader too. He migrated to Croton and founded a religious and philosophical school there and it had many followers. Pythagoras believed that all relations could be reduced to number relations. Pythagoreans noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonious tones when the ratios of the lrngths of the strings are whole numbers, and that the ratios could be extended to other insturments. They knew, as did the Egyptains before them, that any triangle whose sides were in the ratio 3:4:5 was a right-angle triangle. But, the one thing that made Pythagoras famous was the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

69. Thales Of Miletus thales of miletus lived from about 624 to about 546 BC. He was one of the Seven Sages of antiquity and reputed by Aristotle to be the first of the Greek http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/s/10013.html

Thales of Miletus Pythagoras when reporting the demise of the Milesian astronomer. Thales had climbed a hill in the company of a Thracian handmaid, and while looking at the stars, tumbled off a cliff into the sea. The girl reported that he was so eager to know what was going on in the heavens, he could not see what was before his own two feet. The earthy herbalist Gerard Thales of Miletus lived from about 624 to about 546 BC. He was one of the Seven Sages of antiquity and reputed by Aristotle to be the first of the Greek philosophers. He predicted an eclipse of the sun in 585 BC, using the methods of the Egyptians and the Chaldeans. The eclipse occured during a battle between the Lydians and the Medians. Thales may also have diverted a river to allow the passage of King Croesus. Related links Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Thales of Miletus Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Thales PANTAGRUELION December 27, 2001

70. Philosophy - Presocratics: Thales thales of miletus (636546 BC). An Ionian, the founder of Greek philosophy and the Milesian school of cosmologists. Born at Miletus about 636 BC., http://www.archaeonia.com/philosophy/presocratics/thales.htm

THALES OF MILETUS (636-546 B.C.) A n Ionian , the founder of Greek philosophy and the Milesian school of cosmologists . Born at Miletus about 636 B.C ., he was a contemporary of Solon and Croesus and died at the age of ninety about 546. According to popular tradition he lived mainly as one of the Seven Sages seven men living between 620-550 B.C. distinguished for their wisdom as rulers lawgivers councilors , or authors of maxims . Many tales were told of him. In one of these he is an unpractical dreamer, and falls into a well while star-gazing. In another he shows himself superior to the ordinary practical man by the use he makes of his scientific knowledge. He is said to have foreseen an abundance of olives and made a corner in oil, thus proving he could be rich if he liked. It is plain that people in general had no idea of his real work, and regarded him simply as a typical 'sage', to whose name anecdotes originally anonymous might be attached. These stories, then, tell us nothing about Thales himself, but they do bear witness to the impression produced by science and scientific men when they first appeared in a world that was half inclined to marvel and half inclined to scoff. There is, however, another set of traditions about Thales from which something may be learnt. They are not of a popular character, since they attribute to him certain definite scientific achievements. One of the most important of these, the prediction of a

71. Encyclopedia Of Astronomy And Astrophysics » Thales Of Miletus (624–546 BC thales of miletus (624–546 BC). DOI 10.1888/0333750888/4051; Published November 2000. Icon Full text (PDF, 17K). Article summary http://eaa.iop.org/index.cfm?action=summary&doc=eaa/4051@eaa-xml

72. Thales Of Miletus thales of miletus. This page is part of the tools section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato s http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/char/thales.htm

Bernard SUZANNE Last updated December 5, 1998 Plato and his dialogues : Home Biography Works History of interpretation ... New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version . Tools : Index of persons and locations Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World . Site information : About the author This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues , dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations . . . . WORK IN PROGRESS - PLEASE BE PATIENT . . . To Perseus general lookup encyclopedia mentions in ancient authors Plato and his dialogues : Home Biography Works History of interpretation ... New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version . Tools : Index of persons and locations Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World . Site information : About the author First published January 4, 1998 - Last updated December 5, 1998

73. Thales thales of miletus was born about 624 BC in Miletus, (now Turkey) and died there about 547. It seems that he is the first known Greek philosopher and http://www.mathsisgoodforyou.com/people/thales.htm

Thales home courses topics theorems ... timeline Thales of Miletus 624 BC - 547 BC Thales of Miletus was born about 624 BC in Miletus, (now Turkey) and died there about 547. It seems that he is the first known Greek philosopher and mathematician and was believed to have been the teacher of Anaximander - another important Greek philosophers from the Milesian School. No writings of Thales survived, so we are relying completely on what others have written about himself and his work. Proclus, the one of the later major Greek philosophers who lived around 450AD wrote that Thales went to Egypt as a young man and brought back what he learnt there into Greek philosophy and mathematics. He discovered many propositions himself, and instructed his students to question any and all mathematical problems. In this way they would deduce the general rule which can then be applied to any case to which the problem relates. This is now generally used in both mathematics and philosophy. Thales is credited with five theorems of elementary geometry:- i A circle is bisected by any diameter.

74. Electronic Antiquities Volume III, Number 7 was made publically by thales of miletus in announcements to the Ionian we suppose, must have found their way to Miletus where Thales himself, http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V3N7/worthen.html

ETDs ImageBase Ejournals News ... Special Collections Announcements: The Special Collections Reading Room is still closed for renovations. Please continue to check our web site for more information... ELECTRONIC ANTIQUITY: COMMUNICATING THE CLASSICS Editors: Terry Papillon Terry.Papillon@vt.edu Andrew Becker (Book Reviews) abecker@vt.edu MAY 1997 Volume III, Number 7 HERODOTOS'S REPORT ON THALES' ECLIPSE Thomas Worthen Department of Classics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A. e-mail: tomwr@ccit.arizona.edu A number of scientists have a-priori doubts about the ability of Thales to predict solar eclipses. ( ) There was no eclipse prediction; hence what Herodotos's reports about Thales a myth. If the solution is that simple, then the year 585 can be of litte consideration for historians attempting to set these events into chronological sequence. Other scientists disregard historical factors altogether in their attempts to save Thales and his prediction. They speculate that, although Thales could not have used a methodology developed by Chaldean astronomers ( ), he may have learned of some other principles upon which he based his prediction. Hence they defend this or that eclipse date based on their own view of what Thales' methodology must have been, without consideration of the problematic chronologies involved. (

75. The Benjo Blog » Blog Archive » Quote Of The Day - Thales Of Miletus Quote of the Day thales of miletus. Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 at 633 am. He speculated on what the universe might be made of, what its nature was, http://benjoblog.weblogs.us/2005/05/22/quote-of-the-day-thales-of-miletus/

var af_elaProcessURI = 'http://benjoblog.weblogs.us/wp-content/plugins/af-extended-live-archive/includes/af-ela.php'; var tsaProcessURI = 'http://benjoblog.weblogs.us/wp-content/plugins/teb-super-archive/includes/tsa.php'; Home Credits Stats Syndicate ... Vomiting is not a Dealbreaker. Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 at 6:33 am [H]e speculated on what the universe might be made of, what its nature was, how it might have started. In doing so, he made two assumptions. First, he decided that there were no gods or demons involved but that the universe operated through unchanging laws. Second, that the human mind, by observation and thought, could work out what those laws might involve. All of science, ever since the time of Thales, operates on these two assumptions. - Isaac Asimov, The Greeks: A Great Adventure, pgs. 61-62 Permalink Trackback Add a Comment Posted by The General under Quotations Trackback URL for this post is: http://benjoblog.weblogs.us/2005/05/22/quote-of-the-day-thales-of-miletus/trackback/ This entry was posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago. You can follow any responses to this entry through the

76. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results thales of miletus Born about 624 BC in Miletus, Asia Minor (now Turkey) Died Famous Scientists thales of miletus (638548 BC) - Greek philosopher; http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/search_webcatalogue.pl?term1=Thales&limit

77. 600 BC thales of miletus. Attractive properties of Amber. thales of miletus (640546 BC), a Greek philospher, is believed to be the first person to have observed http://itp.nyu.edu/~nql3186/electricity/pages/thales.html

600 BC Thales of Miletus Attractive properties of Amber Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC), a Greek philospher, is believed to be the first person to have observed the attractive properties of amber. (His teachings were passed down orally until Aristotle wrote them down.) He observed that when rubbed amber could pick up light objects. We now know that this was due to static electricity, but for many centuries this was considered an interesting "magic" property of amber. Fun Word Fact: Our words electriciy and electron come from the Greek word for amber: electron - Return to Timeline

78. Thales thales of miletus. ca. 625 ~ 547 BCE. Known as the Father of Greek Mathematics, Thales is credited with having presented proofs of the the following http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/mth15hp/thales/thales.htm

Thales of Miletus ca. 625 ~ 547 BCE Known as the Father of Greek Mathematics , Thales is credited with having presented proofs of the the following theorums: A circle is bisected by its diameter. The base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal. The verticle angles formed by two intersecting straight lines are equal. A triangle is determined if two angles and the included side are given; that is to say any side and the adjacent angles equal to the side and adjacent angles in another triangle imply that the two triangles are congruent. An angle inscribed in a semi-circle is a right angle when connected from both ends of the diameter. (This is known as Thales' Theorem) Examples of Thales' Mathematics Choose One of the Following: Thales' Theorem Vertical Angles are Equal Other Links for Thales St. Andrew's History of Thales Back to Mth.15 Home Page

79. Encyclopaedia Britannica Entry thales of miletus. Flourished 6th century BC. Philosopher renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity (see Philosophy, http://www.aam314.vzz.net/EB/Thales.html

Thales of Miletus Flourished: 6th century BC Thales has been credited with the discovery of five geometry theorems: (1) that a circle is bisected by its diameter, (2) that angles in a triangle opposite two sides of equal length are equal, (3) that opposite angles formed by intersecting straight lines are equal, (4) that the angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle, and (5) that a triangle is determined if its base and the two angles at the base are given. His mathematical achievements are difficult to assess, however, because of the ancient practice of crediting particular discoveries to men with a general reputation for wisdom. The claim that Thales was the founder of European philosophy rests primarily on Aristotle (384-322 BC), who wrote that Thales was the first to suggest a single material substratum for the universe namely, water, or moisture. A likely consideration in this choice was the seeming motion that water exhibits, as seen in its ability to become vapour; for what changes or moves itself was thought by the Greeks to be close to life itself, and to Thales the entire universe was a living organism, nourished by exhalations from water. Thales's significance lies less in his choice of water as the essential substance than in his attempt to explain nature by the simplification of phenomena and in his search for causes within nature itself rather than in the caprices of anthropomorphic gods. Like his successors the philosophers Anaximander (610-546/545 BC) and Anaximenes of Miletus (fl. c. 545 BC), Thales is important in bridging the worlds of myth and reason.

80. [This Is The Print Version Of Story Http//www.abc.net.au/science one of the seven wise men of antiquity, thales of miletus (624560 BC), suggested around 435 BC by Leucippus who, like Thales, was from Miletus. http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/science/features/greekgee

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