Thales the Measurer

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nList of figures\nSources and Translations\nForeword\nPART I: Approaching Thales\n	1 Who were these ancient masters?\n	2 A context for Thales\n	3 Elements of a biography\nPART II: Five quantitative inquiries\n	4 How to measure the height of a pyramid\n	5 Thales dates the tropai\n	6 From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the isēmeriai\n	7 What explains a solar eclipse?\n	8 A measurement of ½\nPART III: Three further investigations on earth, waters and rocks\n	9 Surface water, archē, earth, and, it seems, some fragments of Thales\n	10 The periodic flooding of the Nile and the ‘Atlantic corollary’\n	11 Thales and the stones of Magnesia\nPART IV: Other investigations: real and presumed\n	12 The sky according to Thales\n	13 To measure the distance of a ship from land\n	14 Thales and the theorems of plane geometry\n	15 Thales ‘el injenioso hidalgo’\n	16 Thales the sophos\nPART V: Final remarks\n	17 The ‘new’ fragments of Thales\n	18 Thales the measurer\n	19 The research bug\nAppendix to Chapter 7\nBibliography\nConcordances\nLocorum Index\nGeneral Index