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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.
c. 190 BCE - c. 120 BCE
Life 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
100 CE
The mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.