Thales of Miletus

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Born	624 BCE or 620 BCE
Died	548 BCE or 545 BCE
Subjects Of Study	cosmology • matter • water

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Lucian

Greek writer

Anaximenes Of Miletus

Greek philosopher

Anaximander

Greek philosopher

Anaxagoras

Greek philosopher

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher

Empedocles

Greek philosopher and scholar

Zeno of Elea

Greek philosopher and mathematician

Archytas of Tarentum

Greek mathematician

Xenophanes

Greek poet and philosopher

Martin Heidegger

German philosopher

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish philosopher

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Euclid

Greek mathematician

Ptolemy

Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

Epicurus

Greek philosopher

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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