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Thales

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Philosopher of Greece, and one of her seven sages; was a philosopher of the physical school, and the father of philosophy in general, as the first to seek and find within Nature an explanation of Nature; "the principle of all things is water," he says; "all comes from water, and to water all returns"; flourished about the close of the 7th century B.C.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Thales'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/thales.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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