Thales, the Greek mathematician from Miletus, Ionia (today's Western Turkey), was probably also the first "scientist" in the world (at least in the West) who used his reason to figure out how things worked out in real life. Thales was famous for calculating distances and heights by triangulation and ratio methods. He was also an engineer and an astronomer who predicted the solar eclipse of 585 B.C.
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