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c. 585 BCETime in which Thales of Miletus lived.
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28 May 585 BCEA battle between Media and Lydia broke off immediately as a result of a total eclipse of the sun and the two armies made peace. The eclipse was successfully predicted by Thales of Miletus.
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c. 571 BCE - c. 497 BCELife of Pythagoras of Samos; claim that "number" is the First Cause of existence and the soul is immortal.
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c. 546 BCEDate of Anaximenes' work; air is claimed as the First Cause of existence.
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c. 450 BCEEmpedocles suggests that all things are made from combinations of the four elements; earth, fire, water and air.
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384 BCE - 322 BCELife of Aristotle.
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c. 310 BCE - c. 230 BCELife of Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos.
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c. 300 BCEBeginnings of the discipline of botany, as Theophrastus writes Enquiry into Plants and The Causes of Plants.
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287 BCE - 212 BCELife of Archimedes, physician, mathematician and engineer.
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c. 190 BCE - c. 120 BCELife of Hipparchus of Nicea, the ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer considered the greatest astronomer of antiquity and among the most impressive in world history
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100 CEThe mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.