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A SHORT HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



SCIENCE 



GENEBAL HISTORY, LITERATURE, 

 ART, ETC. 



o 







3 



! 







a 



c. 400. 

 C. 400. 



384-322. 



376-326. 

 c. 376. 



372-287. 

 c. 360-260. 



342-270. 

 c. 330-276. 

 c. 825. 



o 



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fr 



S 



c. 800. 



287-212. 

 c. 276-194. 



270- 

 c. 260-200. 



238. 



I 



c. 135. 



c. 146-126. 



Meton (Calendar). 

 Motion of Earth 

 (PhUolaus). 



Aristotle. 



Mensechmus. 



Heraclides of Pontus. 



Theophrastus. 



Zeno (Stoic). 



Epicurus. 



Euclid. 



Eudemus. 



Herophilus. Erasistra- 



tus. 



Archimedes. 

 Erastosthenes. 

 Aristarchus. 

 Apollonius. 

 Decree of Canopus 



(Leap Tear). 



Ctesibius. 

 Hipparchus. 



384-322. 

 c. 370. 



366-323. 

 338. 



332. 



323-50. 

 c. 300. 



300. 

 283. 



280. 



c. 286. 

 269. 



c. 210. 



c. 170. 



c. 166. 



161. 



146. 



Demosthenes. 

 Diogenes. Scopas. Prax- 

 iteles. 



Alexander the Great. 

 Chceronea, Battle of. 



Alexandria founded. 



The Ptolemies, I- VI. 

 Museum and Library of 



Alexandria. 



Epicurus. 



The Pharos built at 



Alexandria. 

 The Colossus of Rhodes. 



Theocritus. 



Silver money first coined 

 in Borne. 



The Great Chinese Wall 

 begun. 



Paper made in China. 



Polybius. 



Terence. 



Philosophers and Rheto- 

 ricians banished from 

 Rome. 



Carthage destroyed (re- 

 built in 2SS). 



