Scientific and Philosophical Questions
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-The historical beginnings of the subject of Philosophy can trace back to the Greek mathematician Thales born in 624BC in the city of Miletus. Considered to be maybe the first great Greek mathematician in his time, Thales went against what most people would considered to be normal thinking for his time he predicted many things like weather occurrences and most famously he predicted a solar eclipses. While he could have profited of his discovery’s like charging to predict the seasons that would be good for growing weather he only wanted to prove it could be done. He also discovered that he could determine the height of a pyramid by measuring shadows. By using a stick, he stuck it in the ground where the shadow made by the pyramid stopped. Then he say the shadow made by the stick was a similar triangle to the shadow that was made from the pyramid they had the same angels so that made them proportionate. Knowing this he estimated the distance from center of the pyramid to the end of the shadow because whatever percentage the height of the stick would be of its shadow would be that same percent for the pyramid. Today Thales’ approach to making sense of the world would be handled by a few academic fields of study now a days. I would compare his studies of how the universe came to be and what is matter that everything is made of to modern astrophysics. I could pitcher Thales trying to crack the mystery of dark matter in space.
