EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Thales of Miletus, (born c. 624–620 bce-died c. 548–545 bce), philosopher renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity. He is remembered primarily for his cosmology based on water as the essence of all matter, with Earth a flat disk floating on a vast sea.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thales believed that water was the origin of all things in Nature. To explain earthquakes, he envisioned the earth floating on water. The waves of the water virtually “rocked the boat, ” thus causing earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-3: -In ancient Greek philosophy, arche () is the beginning or the first principle of the world. Thales of Miletus claimed that the first principle of all things is water. His theory was supported by the observation of moisture throughout the world and coincided with his theory that the earth floated on water.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is often referred to as the Father of Science. Thales is recognized for breaking from the use of mythology to explain the world and the universe, instead explaining natural objects and phenomena by offering naturalistic theories and hypotheses.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aristotle, the major source for Thales’s philosophy and science, identified Thales as the first person to investigate the basic principles, the question of the originating substances of matter and, therefore, as the founder of the school of natural philosophy.