Thales
['θeili:z]
解释:
(noun.) 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).
录入:威廉敏娜--From WordNet
例句:
- We see again here, as in the case of Thales, th at the love of abstract thought, the pursuit of science as science, did not interfere with ultimate practical applications. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The philosophical mind of Thales laid hold, no doubt, of some of the essentials of astronomical science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- For the rest we touched upon all the historic names from Thales to Nietzsche. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Thales (640-546 B.., who is usually regar ded as the first of the Greek philosophers, was the founder of Greek geometry and astronomy. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In fact, some writers maintain that Thales wa s not a philosopher at all, but rather an astronomer and engineer. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- For example, Thales saw that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and that when two straight lines cut one another the vertically opposite angles are equal. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In the presence of the Egyptian priests, to which class he was solely indebted for instruction, Thales demonstrated a method of measuring the height of a pyramid by reference to its shadow. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Pythagoras, on the advice of Thales, visited Egypt in the pursuit of mathematics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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