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c. 585 BCE

Time in which Thales of Miletus lived.
28 May 585 BCE

A battle between Media and Lydia broke off immediately as a result a total eclipse of the sun and the two armies made peace. The eclipse was successfully predicted by Thales of Miletus.
c. 571 BCE - c. 497 BCE

Life of Pythagoras of Samos; claim that "number" is the First Cause of existence and the soul is immortal.
c. 546 BCE

Date of Anaximenes' work; air is claimed as the First Cause of existence.
c. 450 BCE

Empedocles suggests that all things are made from combinations of the four elements; earth, fire, water and air.
384 BCE - 322 BCE

Life of Aristotle.
c. 310 BCE - c. 230 BCE

Life of Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos.
c. 300 BCE

Beginnings of the discipline of botany, as Theophrastus writes Enquiry into Plants and The Causes of Plants.
287 BCE - 212 BCE

Life of Archimedes, physician, mathematician and engineer.
190 BCE - 120 BCE

Life of Hipparchus of Nicea, an ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, regarded by many historians as a scientist of the highest quality and possibly the greatest astronomical genius among ancient Greeks.
100 CE

The mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.

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