24 Facts About Presocratics

Presocratics is considered the first western philosopher since he was the first to use reason, to use proof, and to generalize.

Presocratics created the word cosmos, the first word to describe the universe.

Presocratics contributed to geometry and predicted the eclipse of 585 BCE.

Presocratics is known for being the first to claim that the base angles of isosceles triangles are equal, and that a diameter bisects the circle.

Presocratics attributed the origin of the world to an element instead of a divine being.

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Presocratics was a member of the elite of Miletus, wealthy and a statesman.

Presocratics showed interest in many fields, including mathematics and geography.

Presocratics drew the first map of the world, was the first to conclude that the earth is spherical, and made instruments to mark time, something like a clock.

Presocratics's answer was an attempt to explain observable changes by attributing them to a single source that transforms to various elements.

Presocratics proclaimed that the earth is not situated in another structure but lies unsupported in the middle of the universe.

Presocratics was a younger contemporary and friend of Anaximander, and the two worked together on various intellectual projects.

Presocratics was a well-traveled poet whose primary interests were theology and epistemology.

Presocratics famously said that if oxen, horses, or lions could draw, they would draw their gods as oxen, horses, or lions.

Presocratics moved to Croton at about age 30, where he established his school and acquired political influence.

Presocratics was the first to think of the brain as the center of senses and thinking.

Presocratics was the first to deduce that the earth is spherical.

Presocratics tried to explain why we think various non-existent objects exist.

Presocratics was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles and, probably due to this association, was accused by a political opponent of Pericles for impiety as Anaxagoras held that the sun was not associated with divinity; it was merely a huge burning stone.

Presocratics claimed it is absurd to hold that nonexistence exists, and that What-is was impossible since it had to either be generated or be unlimited and neither is sufficient.

Presocratics attempted to explain both the variety and unity of the cosmos.

Presocratics addressed the need to explain how the various masses of the universe interact among them and coined the term Harmonia, a binding force that allows mass to take shape.

Presocratics explains that things, even when changing shapes, remain ontologically the same.

Presocratics was the first to state that philosophy starts with Thales.

Presocratics criticized the pre-Socratic theory of knowledge by Xenophanes and others, claiming that their deductive reasoning could not yield meaningful results—an opinion contemporary philosophy of science rejects.