thales of miletus

Noun thales of miletus has 1 sense

• thales of miletus(n = noun.person) thales - a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC);
is a kind of astronomer, stargazer, uranologist, philosopher