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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Thales was the first of the Greek teachers and thinkers to look for natural explanations for the origin of the world, rather than relying on Greek mythology.

He used mathematics he learned from the Babylonians, and predicted an eclipse of the sun. He used triangles and the congruency rules (if two triangles have one side the same size and two angles equal, they are equal) and early primative geometry to predict the distance of ships.

First "scientist," that is a person who tries to systematize knowledge gained by observation, study and experimentation to come up with principles, facts, and valid hypotheses.

He was one of the famous "seven sages," men who served as law formulators and rulers of his day.

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