| 单词 | Thales of Miletus |
| 释义 | Thales of Miletus (once / 236387 pages) n WORD FAMILY Thales of Miletus USAGE EXAMPLESThe first Ionian scientist was Thales of Miletus, a city in Asia across a narrow channel of water from the island of Samos. Carl Sagan, Cosmos(1980) Thales As the founder of the earliest school in history, Thales of Miletus is generally accounted the founder and father of all philosophy. Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence), A Critical History of Greek Philoso...(2010) He seems to be profoundly impressed with the truth of the saying of Thales of Miletus, that "the half is sometimes more than the whole." Various, The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, Febru...(2010) n a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC) Syn|Exp Thales astronomer, stargazer, uranologist a physicist who studies astronomy philosophera specialist in philosophy |
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