{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app13.htm","path":"cla/app/app13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/app/app13.htm","text":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]\nThales of Mil\u00eatus was in his prime about 585 B.C.\nWhether he ever wrote a book is unknown; if he did, no genuine fragment survives,.\n1. (Title: 'Nautical Astronomy').\n2. (There are two Hyades, one north and one south).\nLate forgery\n3. The much-discussed four substances\u2014of which we say the chief is Water, making it as it were the one Element\u2014by combination and solidification and coagulation of the substances in the universe mingle with one another. In what way, I have already explained in Book One.\n4. (Titles: 'On the Solstice'. 'On the Equinox').","title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 11. Thales of Mil\u00eatus","type":"page"}