(624-546 BCE)

 He was a pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and

astronomer from Miletus
 He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece
 Aristotle regarded him as the first philosopher in the
Greek tradition
 He is historically recognized as the first individual in
Western civilization known to have entertained and
engaged in scientific philosophy
Thales believed that everything was
based on the existence of a single
ultimate substance