Thales was born in what's now Turkey, in the city of Miletus, about 630 BC, during the Archaic period.
He understood that the earth was round, and that the moon was lit by light reflecting from the sun. According to Herodotus, in 585 BC Thales was the first person to successfully predict an eclipse of the sun (an eclipse which ended a war between the Lydians and the Persians).
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