Thales
- Thales is best remembered for his metaphysics which argued that everything originated from water and that water somehow constituted all other elements. He left no writings.
- Thales devoted time to astronomy and was the first person to predict a solar eclipse accurately.
- He was a noted mathematician and is said to have measured the height of the great pyramid using the length of its shadow.
- He was credited with discovering magnetism in the west and used it as the basis of his theory of Panpsychism.
- While many of his inspirations and sources were mythic, Thales is said to have moved beyond myth and towards naturalistic explanations of the world.
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