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= Thales of Miletus
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Thales of Miletus was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, born around 624 BCE in Miletus, a city in Ionia (modern-day Turkey). He is often considered one of the founding figures of Western philosophy and is one of the earliest known pre-Socratic philosophers. Thales is particularly credited with shifting the focus of Greek thought from mythological explanations of the world to rational ones based on observation and inquiry.