THALES

WHO IS THALES?

• Thales is a mathematician who created geomatry lines
• He also traveled to many places like Egypt to learn
• He was born in Miletus and today it is known as Turkey
• He was born in the Ancient Greek time

STORIES:

THE BUMPER CROP

• In Thales community, there were poor people because the oil producing trees had not produced for years. After he talked worh people, he predicted that it was a bumper crop. He bought all the oil presses he could purchase and made the trees finally harvest. He made a fortune but he was more interested in the process than the result

MEASURING PYRAMIDS

• Thales traveled to Egypt and was curious of how big one of the pyramids was. When he asked people, no one knew so, he used the length of his shadow and the shadow cast by the pyramid and solved the problem.

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• One dark evening Thales was out walking in Miletus, looking at the night sky. He stumbled into a ditch, whereupon an old woman, who knew him as a ‘thinker’ laughed, and asked: “How can you see what the heavens are telling you when you can’t even see what is under your own feet?”
• (He was studying the stars)

THE BEGINNING OF GEOMATRY

• Thales teachers knew about geomatry but Thales took it to a different level of absraction and created the first ever geomatry lines.

ASTRONOMY

• He set out to disprove a common belief that the sun was a foot in diameter. His "measurements" found it much larger. Thales knew what caused eclipses, and predicted the day would occur. The public scorned his predictions, Medes and Lydians went to war and when the sun dissapeared, the two armies signed a peace treaty.

FACTS:

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• Thales was the first scientist in history
• He belived that science made the Earth instead of the Gods
• When Thales was born, Miletus was one of the wealthiest and most powerful of all the Greek cities.
• Thales studied in Egypt or Babylonia
• He thought that everything in matter was made of water

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• Thales thought deeply about matter, he decided everything must be made of the same thing
• Thales learned about astronomy in Egypt and possibly Babylon
• Thales built a sphere showing the planets and stars in their constellations around Earth. Later Greeks, possibly Archimedes, developed this further and built a remarkably sophisticated heavenly calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism.

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• Thales is considered by Aristole to be the "founder" of Ionian natural philosophy
• He was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline, who were, according to some authorities, of Phoenician origin
• He found out that a circle is that ito's bisected by it's diameter
• Thales found out about Isoceles triangles that the angles base's are all equal

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• If two triangles have two sides, two angles, and share a side, it is a "blank" triangle, and the "blank" triangle is identical
• Thales had a company named after him
• People told him that he couldn't be rich because he was too smart and wasn't religious enough
• People thought earthquakes were signs that Zeus was mad, Thales tried to explain it and got it wrong

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• Thales was the first to make the celestial globe
• Thales biggest achievement was finding out the Nile River does not flood because of the God's but because of rainfall