Thales of Miletus


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A Greek philosopher from Miletus (existed around the same time as Thales and Anaximander) who believed that the source of all things is water. He was an extensive traveller and said to have calculated the height of pyramids in Egypt by measuring shadows around 585 B.C.[1]


References:

  1. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

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