Solar eclipse
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Thales of Miletus (ca. 624 BC–ca. 546 BC), was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. According to Bertrand Russell, "Western philosophy begins with Thales." According to Herodotus (and determination by modern methods) Thales predicted the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BC.
Diogenes Laërtius quotes the chronicle of Apollodorus of Athens as saying that Thales died at the age of 78 in the 58th Olympiad (548–545 BC), and attributes his death to heat stroke while watching the Games.
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