or law and demands a single explanation‚ which is philosophy. The explanation which philosophy offers is what must be the case in order for something to be as it is. Thales was an astronomer who was the first to predict an eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C. Thales said that the universe is one thing which was water‚ or matter. Thales lived in Miletus‚ then part of Greece and now present day Turkey. Herakleitos said there were four basic elements which were fire‚ water‚ earth‚ and air in balance.
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contribution did Thales make to the development of science? Thales of Miletus (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC) was said to be the first known scientific thinker. Thales was both important and extremely influential. He wanted an explanation without turning to supernatural powers. Thales attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology. Other philosophers admired his way of thinking and followed him in attempting to explain substance change‚ and the existence of the world. Thales had two strong
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What is History? interpretation of the past gathering evidence & analyzing it‚ making interpretations way to construct arguments about past based on evidence goal of class is to teach how to think historically Herodotus ca. 484-420 BC Greek writer of “The History of the Persian Wars” used the word Historion (greek word - questioning‚ inquiry‚ investigation‚ gathering of evidence) his work is an investigation on a war etc. it’s something active - History is investigation/questioning
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consisted a square base and triangular faces. 2. 2000 BC- It was the earliest record of calculating the area of a triangle‚ however there is no tangible evidence. 3. 624-547 BC- The Thales of Miletus was said to be the person to bring the science of geometry from Egypt to Greece. He created the Thales’ Theorem. 4. 569-475 BC- The next great geometer was Pythagoras. He had created the Pythagorean Theorem that states in a right triangle the sum of sides A and B are equivalent to side C
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The Greek mind is something so brilliant and historic that it is mainly talked about in past tenses. Deep thinkers derived from scarce resources and immense intelligence have poetically spread knowledge over centuries‚ one pupil after another. The Greeks are so important because they took thinking and everyday life problems and created meaning from the unknown; before there was a Google or internet to readily extinguish ignorance with the push of a button. Foremost‚ all things mentioned above are
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Paragraph 2‚ some of the greatest mathematicians are quoted for there superior workings in trigonometry. As for the word trigonometry it appeared in a book Trigonometria Published by Bartholomeo Pitiscus in the year of 1595. Another mathematician Thales of Miletus used shadow lengths to calculate the heights of the pyramids in around 600 BC. Aryabhata the Elder‚ was a Hindu mathematician who gave tables of half chords‚ known by the term jya-ardha or simply jya. Hipparchus was known to produce the
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were the first in the West to provide answers that were not expressed in religious or mythological terms. Their thoughts on these matters grew out of speculations on the nature of the universe made by earlier Greeks‚ particularly Thales and. his followers Anaximander and Heraclitus. These thinkers‚ living in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.‚ theorized about how the universe had been formed and what it was made of by means of rational explanations drawn
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but for having knowledge in everything. It could be assumed that Thales‚ who was one of the first philosophers of ancient Greece knew everything that there was to know in ancient Greece‚ which is already very improbable. It is almost entirely impossible that he knew everything in the world because he did not even have the chance to learn about knowledge originating from other places. Socrates‚ who was born 235 years later than Thales said‚” I only know‚ that I know nothing.” If one of the smartest
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field of geometry is called a geometer. Geometry arose independently in a number of early cultures as a body of practical knowledge concerning lengths‚ areas‚ and volumes‚ with elements of a formal mathematical science emerging in the West as early as Thales (6th Century BC). By the 3rd century BC geometry was put into an axiomatic form by Euclid‚ whose treatment—Euclidean geometry—set a standard for many centuries to follow.[1] Archimedes developed ingenious techniques for calculating areas and volumes
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Thales believed that everything happened for a reason and this reason was water. In these times‚ as well as today‚ there cannot be a civilization without water‚ water is the lifeblood of existence. Everything from having a good crop yield to the storms that
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