Milesians

Future Positive : Front Page Here is a rare synergy: Thales as speculator in vegetable oil futures, and as predictor of eclipses: and as early pioneer of of secular philosophy: "reducing yet more of the perverse magic of a persnickety universe to elements graspable by reason. Among other things, he tossed aside the habit of explaining everything via mythology and generated a down-to-earth theory of how this cosmos had begun."

One of the most important Milesians, really a Mylesian: Flann O'Brien. See from the pen of...

and also Flann

Remember: a pint of plain is your only man.
(and watch out for those bicycle molecules - the great scientist de Selby who analysed this is commemorated at )De Selby