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c. 1600 BCEEarliest Egyptian water clocks in use.
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c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCEExtensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
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597 BCEBabylonian king Nebuchadnezar captures Jerusalem.
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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. 450 BCEParapegma star calendar invented in Greece by Meton and Euctemon.
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c. 450 BCEFirst klepsydra - water timekeeping device - used in Athens.
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420 BCEDemocritos develops an atomic theory of matter.
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c. 310 BCE - c. 230 BCELife of Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos.
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287 BCE - 212 BCELife of Archimedes, physician, mathematician and engineer.
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c. 275 BCECtesibius invents first sophisticated multi-cogged water-clock.
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c. 270 BCEAristarchus of Samos proposes a heliocentric world view.
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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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c. 159 BCEFirst water-clock set up in Rome.
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c. 110 BCE - c. 50 BCETower of The Winds by Andronicus constructed in Athens.
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c. 50 BCEAntikythera instrument invented, an astronomical measuring device.
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100 CEThe mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.
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1799 CEAlessandro Volta invents the first electric battery.
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1821 CEMichael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.
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1859 CECharles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, thereby introducing the Theory of Evolution.
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1869 CEThe Periodic Table of Elements is proposed by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.