CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Aristarchus and Democritus
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Democritus and Eratosthenes
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Eratosthenes and Aristotle
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Aristotle and Aristarchus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thales of Miletus was a Greek philosopher and one of the seven sages of antiquity. Aristotle considered him to be the first philosopher and his philosophical predecessor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Less controversial than the position that Thales learnt Babylonian mathematics is the claim he was influenced by Egyptians. Pointedly historian S. N. Bychkov holds that the idea that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal likely came from Egypt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thales seems to be the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician although his occupation was that of an engineer. He is believed to have been the teacher of Anaximander (611 BC-545 BC) and he was the first natural philosopher in the Milesian School.