In his work The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Greeks borrowed much of their knowledge, ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, once profoundly stated, "The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Long before Thales, the ancient landscape bore hints of successful eclipse prediction. Modern experts say that Stonehenge — one of the world’s most famous prehistoric sites, its construction ...

In ancient Greece, philosopher Thales of Miletus noticed something strange. When he rubbed fur on amber, the amber attracted dust. This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of ...

IN NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 291, we briefly referred to the first part of Dr. Allman's work, which gave an account of the earlier geometers, more especially treating of the labours of Thales and ...