Thales, a philosopher from Miletus in 6th century BCE, is considered by Aristotle to be the first to consider and pursue knowledge about the origins and principles of the natural world and natural occurrences. Thales list of contributions included predicting a solar eclipse, introducing geometry from Greece to Egypt, and contributing fantastic works of engineering. In contrast to Heraclitus, Thales believed that world rests on water and viewed water as the fundamental principle, “that from which they come to be is a principle of all things” (Curd). Aristotle attributes Thales’s fixation on water because of its role in coming-to-be, nutrition, growth, and the origin of the nature of moist things (Curd). In addition, Water is Thales’s main element
