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The third chapter Socrates used to ancient Greek natural philosophy Iron and alphabet used for human society provides new opportunities, especially to those engaged in maritime trade, or those from the barbarous age directly into the iron age, which in some way to get rid of the Bronze Age culture tradition of the society, make full use of these opportunities. Etruscan and phoenicians, who grew up in Asia and the Middle East and north Africa to Italy westward, voyager, but they retain their homeland of some traditional Bronze Age, such as observe the god cattle liver as divination customs. Roman and Hebrew is in the iron age into a period of civilization, but they mainly was a tiller of the ground, rather than the voyager, so there is no significant contribution to science. Only greeks are directly from the barbarous into the iron age of civilization, and is engaged in navigation from the beginning. Greeks feeling of space with a traveler or geometry, which is before the Greek settlement of the era of agricultural society and later cut off from the Greek thought of agricultural society (such as Chinese civilization) lack. The ancient greeks also have traveler that knowledge about different cultures and traditions, which makes them to from each kind of culture and tradition of the truly valuable part, but not seriously follow any kind of special culture and tradition. Greece is the first natural philosopher thales of miletus (thales, About 625-545 BC); People to his achievements, these situations. It is said that he had business to Egypt, obtained the knowledge of geometry in Egypt, has been to Mesopotamia, learned in astronomy. Legend has it he ever predict a solar eclipse, although this prediction in that era is impossible; Legend who also prove the circumference of a circle diameter of the circle in two, the theorem is known as the truth. Thales undoubtedly had heard the king of Babylon and Egypt on the legend of creation, and in the two legends, the water is the