…among the Ionian philosophers, especially Thales of Miletus, Heracleitus, and Anaximander, led to a more critical and more rationalistic treatment of the gods. Our ability to reason is rooted in the tradition of philosophy and science that began with Greek thinker Thales of Miletus who initiated a shift in thinking from mythos to logos with his theory that everything originates from water, and who according to tradition predicted a total solar eclipse that ended a war because everyone thought that the Gods were angry. Thales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Time in which Thales of Miletus lived. Aëtius recorded that Thales and Democritus found in water the cause of earthquakes (Aët. The eclipse was successfully predicted by Thales of Miletus. 28 May 585 BCE A battle between Media and Lydia broke off immediately as a result a total eclipse of the sun and the two armies made peace. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him as the first philosopher in the Greek traditio III.15), and Seneca attributed to Thales a theory that on the occasions when the earth is said to quake it is fluctuating because of the roughness of oceans (QNat. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Thus, Thales (6th century bce) and Heracleitus (flourished c. 500 bce) considered water and fire, respectively, to be the first substance, out of which everything else is… III.14; 6.6).