PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 5

The earliest natural philosophers were not Greeks,but reside in its colonies.There are three philosophers from Miletus and the first philosopher Thales came from Miletus,a Greek colony in Asia Minor,now North Africa.He traveled round the world,including Egypt,when he studied pyramid and estimated and calculated its heights by measurement of its shadow,at the precise moment when his own shadow's length was equal to his height.Not only did he accurately predicted a solar eclipse in the year 585 B.C.but also thought that the source of everything was water.That all life originated from water and later returned back to water.He noted that"all things are full of gods"not reffering to Homer's godsand also enthused that the earth was full of tiny invisible"life germs".After him we know of another philosopher who lived at the same place at about the same time like him called',Anaximander'.He had different views entirely that the world was made of something boundless,that nature or matter has limited powers to exist.