THALES

     

THALES (625 B.C.E -  545 B.C.E)

THALES (625 B.C.E -  545 B.C.E)

About

•  Born : 625 B.C.E , Miletus

•  Founder of Milesian school/early  Ionian school.

•  Father of western philosophy.

•  Mathematician, Astronomer, First  European philosopher.

•  The first genuine scientist.

•  Died : 545 B.C.E

       

       

        

        

        Doctrine and Ideas

•  The World Stuff/Arche is water.
•  Water is the ultimate principle because everything comes and returns to water.
•  Water gives life to all all animate things.
•  Water is alive, so the universe is alive.
•  This theorem is called Hylozoism; that is matter is alive (water is a matter and it is alive).
•  After death water goes from body.
•  Earth is floating on the pool of water.

        

        Achievements and Contributions

•  He successfully predicted an eclipse of sun on 28 may, 585 B.C.E.
•  Introduced geometry to Greeks.
•  He is the first one to prove that a circle is bisected by its diameter.