Adventures in CyberSound: Thales Biography - http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/THALES_BIO.html
Article drawn from Britannica Online, summarizing Thales' philosophical and geometrical legacy. |
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Thales.html
Short article on Thales, emphasizing his mathematical and scientific achievements. Includes link to an article on Thales' Theorem. |
Life of Thales - http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlthales.htm
From the C.D. Yonge translation of Diogenes Laertius. Provided by Peitho's Web. |
Myth - Thales - http://www.stenudd.com/myth/greek/thales.htm
Overview of his thoughts on cosmology and the myths. By Stefan Stenudd. |
Phoenicia: Thales of Miletus - http://phoenicia.org/thales.html
A meticulous biography with reference to various ancient testimonia concerning this philosopher. |
Thales Fragments and Commentary - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/thales.htm
From Arthur Fairbanks' 1898 work, The First Philosophers of Greece. Provided by the Hanover Historical Texts Project. |
Thales of Miletus - http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/thales.htm
Lengthy article by Patricia O'Grady, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Discusses his life, teachings and impact. |
Thales of Miletus - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/thales.html
1995 paper by Kathleen Norton, focusing on the geometrical theorems of Thales. |
Thales of Miletus - http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html
Article by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. A discussion of the life and teachings of this thinker, with links to related articles. |
Thales of Miletus - http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/thales2/thales2.html
Illustrated article by Don Allen with an emphasis on Thales' geometrical achievements. |