Thales
Links
Adventures in CyberSound: Thales Biography
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/THALES_BIO.html
Article drawn from Britannica Online, summarizing Thales' philosophical and geometrical legacy.
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Thales.html
Short article on Thales, emphasizing his mathematical and scientific achievements. Includes link to an article on Thales' Theorem.
Life of Thales
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlthales.htm
From the C.D. Yonge translation of Diogenes Laertius. Provided by Peitho's Web.
Phoenicia: Thales of Miletus
http://phoenicia.org/thales.html
A meticulous biography with reference to various ancient testimonia concerning this philosopher.
Thales Fragments and Commentary
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/thales.htm
From Arthur Fairbanks' 1898 work, The First Philosophers of Greece. Provided by the Hanover Historical Texts Project.
Thales of Miletus
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html
Article by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. A discussion of the life and teachings of this thinker, with links to related articles.
Thales of Miletus
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/thales.htm
Lengthy article by Patricia O'Grady, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Discusses his life, teachings and impact.
Thales of Miletus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/thales.html
1995 paper by Kathleen Norton, focusing on the geometrical theorems of Thales.
Thales of Miletus
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/thales2/thales2.html
Illustrated article by Don Allen with an emphasis on Thales' geometrical achievements.