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          Thales of Miletus

          Ancient Greek philosopher (c. 624 – c. 545 BC)

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          Thales of Miletus (THAY-leez; Ancient Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623  – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greekpre-Socraticphilosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor.

          Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece.

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          6. 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.[2]

          Thales' 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 float