Science Timeline

Earliest Egyptian water clocks in use.

Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.

Babylonian king Nebuchadnezar captures Jerusalem.

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.

Parapegma star calendar invented in Greece by Meton and Euctemon.

First klepsydra - water timekeeping device - used in Athens.

Democritos develops an atomic theory of matter.

Life of Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos.

Life of Archimedes, physician, mathematician and engineer.

Ctesibius invents first sophisticated multi-cogged water-clock.

Aristarchus of Samos proposes a heliocentric world view.

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.

First water-clock set up in Rome.

Tower of The Winds by Andronicus constructed in Athens.

Antikythera instrument invented, an astronomical measuring device.

The mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.

Alessandro Volta invents the first electric battery.

Michael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, thereby introducing the Theory of Evolution.

The Periodic Table of Elements is proposed by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.