Thales of Miletus (624/623-548/545 BC) [Wikipedia]
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BC Diogenes Laƫrtius
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (translated by Robert Drew Hicks) (William Heinemann, London, 1925)
Thales, pp. 14-23.
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BC G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven
The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge University Press, London, 1957)
Chapter II, Thales of Miletus, pp. 74-98.
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