Thales of Miletus

The name of the ship comes from Thales, ancient Greek philosopher, the oldest of the prosocratics, the first of the seven wise men of antiquity, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, meteorologist who was born in Miletus in the second half of the 7th century, when the Greek colonies of Ionia. Son of Examias (of noble descent, from the family of Thebes, Kadmos and Aginoras) and Cleovulina (daughter of Cleobulus of Lindos). Philopatris, a politically active man, boldly interfered with the public of Miletus, and Herodotus testifies that on his own political initiative the Ionian cities united to face the Persian threat together. After dealing with politics for a time, he began to study nature. He traveled many times to Egypt and Mesopotamia, where he taught geometry and astronomy. Thales the Milesian (635-550 BC), with his companions Anaximander (611-546 BC) and Anaximenes (585-528 BC) and Heraclitus the Ephesian (554-484 BC), constitute the Ionian School of Natural Philosophy, which conceived and expressed the first philosophical question of the beginning of everything. One of his quotes is: “that the mind is the fastest creation because it runs everywhere”.