Thales

[person]

Greek philosopher born in Miletus (ca. 624-546 BCE). Thales was a pre-Socratic philosopher, one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Herodotus reports that Thales predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BCE, thus ending a war between the Lydians and Medes. Thales' philosophy was founded on the belief that water, one of the four elements, is the origin and ultimate end of all things.