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'''Presocratic Philosophers''' were the first [[Greek]] philosophers of the Western tradition. Some of this philosophers were the Milesian [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Anaximander]] and [[Anaximenes of Miletus]], Xenophanes of Colophon and [[Heraclitus]] of Ephesus, [[Parmenides]] of Elea, his pupil [[Zeno]] of Elea, [[Pythagoras]] of Samos, the Eliastics Melissus, the Pluralists [[Anaxagoras]] of Clazomenae and Empedocles of Acragas, the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus of Abdera and the Sophists Diogenes of Apollonia.  
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'''Presocratic Philosophers''' were the first [[Greek]] philosophers of the Western tradition. Some of this philosophers were the Milesian [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Anaximander]] and [[Anaximenes of Miletus]], Xenophanes of Colophon and [[Heraclitus]] of Ephesus, [[Parmenides]] of Elea, his pupil [[Zeno]] of Elea, [[Pythagoras]] of Samos, the Eliastics Melissus, the Pluralists [[Anaxagoras]] of Clazomenae and Empedocles of Acragas, the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus of Abdera and the Sophists Diogenes of Apollonia. [[Aristotle]] refers to them as ''Investigators of Nature'' because of their interest on questions of physics.
    
:: Presocratic ''interests extended to religious and ethical thought, the nature of understanding, mathematics, meteorology, the nature of explanation, and the roles of mechanism, matter, form, and structure in the world. Almost all the Presocratics seemed to have something to say about embryology, and fragments of Diogenes and Empedocles show a keen interest in the structures of the body; the overlap between ancient [[philosophy]] and ancient medicine is of growing interest to scholars of early Greek thought'' <ref> [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/ Presocratic Philosophy]  </ref>
 
:: Presocratic ''interests extended to religious and ethical thought, the nature of understanding, mathematics, meteorology, the nature of explanation, and the roles of mechanism, matter, form, and structure in the world. Almost all the Presocratics seemed to have something to say about embryology, and fragments of Diogenes and Empedocles show a keen interest in the structures of the body; the overlap between ancient [[philosophy]] and ancient medicine is of growing interest to scholars of early Greek thought'' <ref> [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/ Presocratic Philosophy]  </ref>
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