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Miletan Triad
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
02/03/2009

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Starting Philosopher
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Related natural phenomena to natural causes
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Aristotle Said about Thales
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Thales was the start of Ionian Philosophy
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Travels of Thales
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Olive Merchant; Traveled all over the civilized world.
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Thales in Babylonia
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Discovered the Saronic Cycle
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Thales' Interests
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Astronomy, Math, and Geometry
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Thales in 585 BC Miletus
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Predicted a solar eclipse
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Thales Becomes...
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Magician and in touch with the heavens
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Thales' Applied Science
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Solar eclipse
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Thales' Grand Unification Theory
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Thales thought there must be a single formula to predict everything.
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Thales' Constancy amidst diversity
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Ultimate theory
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Thales' Ultimate formula/primary science
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Water
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Thales' Natural Philosophy
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Science and Philosophy together
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Anaximander
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Geometry
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Anaximander discovered
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Sun Dial, 2 solstices, 2 equinox
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Anaximander's primary substance
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Apeiron
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Apeiron
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Forces of hot and cold, the struggle which creates all things.
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Anaximander Spontaneous Generation
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Warmth of sun on mud (earth and water)
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Anaximader's Evolution
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Human evolved from fish. Life originated from the sea
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Anaximenes' Primary substance
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Air
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Anaximenes Pneuma
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Essence of Life until 17 and 18 C BC
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