# Thales of Miletus

> He said everything is water — and with that guess, stopped reaching for gods to explain the world. The first person in the Greek tradition to try accounting for nature with reason instead of myth.

*Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** -625
- **Died:** -545
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Thales lived in Miletus on the Ionian coast around the turn of the seventh to sixth century BC, counted among the Seven Sages of early Greece. He proposed that a single substance underlies all nature and settled on water, theorizing the Earth itself floated on it. The shift mattered more than the answer: he reached for natural philosophy where predecessors had used mythology, earning him retrospective billing as the first philosopher and the first to attempt mathematics and deductive reasoning in the Greek line. He calculated pyramid heights, predicted weather and a solar eclipse, charted Ursa Major and the solstices, and engineered a river crossing for the Lydian army. Plutarch later wrote that Thales alone had lifted philosophy from speculation into practice.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 82.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.9 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 26.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 5.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #6
- **Category rank:** #36

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Philosophy, #Astronomy, #Physics, #Literature, #Ancient History

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