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Early Greek Philosophy, The Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes - #509

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The Greek Philosopher, I've Always Assumed Tha Thay

There are these stories that thales went to egypt and he learned all his stuff from from the egyptians. In fact, the mathematics and that phales is sort of reporded is doing is almost certainly babtis or babylone. We have a theorem named for thales about relating to the lengths of the sides of triangles and angles. The procedure that he usesm sometimes the story is said, but it's to determine the height of ships at sea from their d from the distance and other things like that.

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