Thales Of Miletus Research Paper

Thales is known as Thales of Miletus, who was born in about 624 BC in the wealthiest and most powerful city – Miletus in ancient Greek. His parents were Examyas and Cleobulina – both of them were Phoenician. He was a first an engineer, but then after visiting Babylon and Egypt which were popular in astronomy and mathematics, he changed his major and became first scientist in ancient Greek. He was an early Pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer in Miletus. He also was the one of the Seven Sages of Greece – a group of 6th -7th century BC and was the first philosopher in Western region. He was a founder of the Milesian School of natural philosophy in the 6th century BC and be the one who impressed and taught Anaximander. Some unclear

He succeeded in predicting the solar eclipse on 28 May 585 B.C.E and it came from the learning of a cycle known as the Saros, with some attributing to use of the Exeligmos cycle. His successful prediction has been noted by Diogenes Laertius “Thales seems by some accounts to have been the first to study astronomy, the first to predict eclipses of the sun, and to fix the solstices” (Laertius. I.23). Diogenes Laertius claimed that “Thales was the first to determine the sun’s course from solstice to solstice” (Laertius); Thales observed that Solstices are natural phenomena occurring on 21 or 22 of June and December which showed that sun likely stands still in many days because of no difference in its position in the sky. Moreover, he also discovered the seasons of the years which was divided into 365 days per year. He came up with this discover about the seasons because he determined the solstices and knew the numbers of days between each, so he could measure the length of a solar year. It is also true about what Egyptians had in their research by setting the year as the annual increase of star Sirius in