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494-434 BC Empedocles lives. He says the world is made of 4 elements, earth, fire, water and air.
384-322 BC Aristotle lives. Many of his ideas are wrong but the dominate science for the next 2,000 years.
276-194 BC Eratosthenes lives. He measures the circumference of the Earth.
c 150 BC Aglaonike a woman astronomer lives
130-210 AD The doctor Galen lives. His ideas about the human body dominate medicine for the next 1,500 years.
c 150 AD Ptolemy writes his book Almagest which states that the Sun and other planets orbit the Earth
1543 Copernicus publishes his theory that the Earth orbits the Sun
1572 Tycho Brahe observes a supernova