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The Milesians, Predicted the sun eclipse in 585 BC, Moisture is associated…
The Milesians
Thales (624 - 546 BC)
Biography
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According to Aristotle, Thales made money selling olives for a year
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Metaphysical explanation
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The world is not as it simply appears, it must be understood
Anaximander 
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Arché - indefinite
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The apeiron is the origin of everything in the world, and everything ultimately returns to it.
metaphysical explanation
proposes an ethical aspect to the natural world by adding the concept of "penalty and retribution" to explain why things perish.
Motion and change are eternal and rooted in the infinite apeiron; the cosmos is not meaningless
He offered a less practical and more abstract explanation for the earth's position, rejecting the flat-disk concept.
Anaximenes
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