Cosmology

Cosmology is typically understood as the study of the nature and activity of the cosmos.

Relevant Quotes:
DK 11A5 "The Lydians and the Medes even once fought a kind of night battle. In the sixth year, when neither side had a clear advantage over the other in the war, an engagement took place and it so happened that in the middle of the battle day suddenly became night. Thales of Miletus had predicted this loss of daylight to the Ionians by establishing in advance that it would happen within the limits of the year in which it did in fact happen." - Herodotus, Histories

DK 11A17 "In his Astronomy Eudemus reports... that Thales was the first to discover the eclipse of the sun and the fact that the period of its solstices is not always equal." Eudemus

DK 11A3A "Victory went to Thales, Whose cleverness showed not least in the fact that He is said to have measured the tiny stars of the Wain, By which the Phoenicians sail." Callimachus, Iambus

Text References:

 * Waterfield, Robin. 2000. The first philosophers: the presocratics and sophists. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Related terms:

 * Cosmogony
 * Cosmography