[HM] Thales of Miletus

Lisa Gardner (JudyGardnr@aol.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:15:40 EDT

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Dear HM-members
I'm just about finished with a report on Thales of Miletus, but I have one
question that is still bothering me a lot. With really so little known about
Thales, how is it that the historians 'definitely' have the names of his
parents?

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Thales.html

Thales of Miletus was the son of Examyes and Cleobuline. His parents are said
by some to be from Miletus but others report that they were Phoenicians. J
Longrigg writes in [1]:- Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New
York 1970-1990).

But the majority opinion considered him a true Milesian by descent, and of a
distinguished family.

Thank you for any help on this, since I don't have available his reference
source.

Lisa Gardner

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