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3. TIME LINE
Hellinistic Philosophers
Pythagorus (581-497)
Pythagorus (581-497) was famous (1) as an expert on the fate of the soul after death, who thought that the soul was immortal and went through a series of reincarnations; (2) as an expert on religious ritual; (3) as a wonder-worker who had a thigh of gold and who could be two places at the same time; (4) as the founder of a strict way of life that emphasized dietary restrictions, religious ritual and rigorous self discipline. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/
Thales of Miletus (Greece)(----547 BC)
Rely on rational explanations for physical phenomena and avoid bringing gods into it. Thales of Miletus was the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician. He is credited
with five theorems of elementary geometry.
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