 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 610 sayfa
...Thaïes, whose sagacity in affairs of state and public economy appears from many anecdotes. Thaïes is also said to have predicted the eclipse of the...eclipse in question, he doubtless employed astronomical formulœ, which he had obtained, through Asia Minor, from the Chaldœans, the fathers of Grecian, and,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1853 - 510 sayfa
...mathematics and geometry. He was also a great astronomer; for we read in Herodotus (i. 74) that he predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes, king of Lydia, BC 609. He asserted that water is the origin of all things ; that everything... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1853 - 524 sayfa
...mathematics and geometry. He was also a great astronomer; for we read in Herodotus (i. 74) that he predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes, king of Lydia, BC 609. He asserted that water is the origin of all things ; that everything... | |
 | 1868 - 884 sayfa
...period, we are told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Crccsus against Cyrus. He is also said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the title of sago (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
 | 1868 - 884 sayfa
...told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Croesus against Cyrus. He is also Raid to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the title of sage (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
 | 1872 - 860 sayfa
...period, we are told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Croesus against Cyrus. He is also said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the title of sage (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 sayfa
...period, we are told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Croesus against Cyrus. He is also said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the title of sage (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
 | William Smith - 1877 - 536 sayfa
...546, at the age of 90, though the exact date neither of his birth nor of liis death is known. He is said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of the Lydiau king Alyaties; to have diverted the course of the Halys in the time of Croesus ; and later,... | |
 | 1881 - 852 sayfa
...period, we are told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Croesus against Cyrus. He is also said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the title of sage (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
 | 1883 - 854 sayfa
...induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union with Croesus against Cyrus. He is also said to hav« predicted the eclipse of the sun which happened in the reign of Alyattes. His claim to the titte of sage (as in the case of his compeers) was due to his practical... | |
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... life. He is said to have recommended the lonians, who were menaced by the Persians, to form a federation against their powerful enemy, and to select Teos as the capital. At a later period, we are told he induced the Milesians to withdraw from a union... 
