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Date of Discovery |
Name of Discoverer - Profile |
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Major Ground-Breaking Idea |
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2600 BC |
Imhotep
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3D |
The first known monumental stone architecture - the step pyramid (Architecture) |
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| 2 |
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800 BC |
Homer
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3D |
Epic narratives that transformed collective memory into enduring myth (Literature) |
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| 3 |
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600 BC |
Thales
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3D |
Reasoning, geometry and the prediction of solar eclipses (Mathematics/Philosophy) |
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| 4 |
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500 BC |
Pythagoras
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3D |
Pythagoras' theorem linking the sides of right-angled triangles - abstract truth (Mathematics) |
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| 5 |
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500 BC |
Confucius
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3D |
Secular morality, philosophy, ethics and leadership through virtue (Society/Politics) |
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| 6 |
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500 BC |
Buddha
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3D |
Inner consciousness, suffering, enlightenment and meditation (Society/Philosophy) |
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| 7 |
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400 BC |
Democritus
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3D |
Atomic theory - matter is composed of indivisible particles called atoms (Science) |
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| 8 |
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400 BC |
Hippocrates
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3D |
Hippocratic oath and medicine as rational practice - illness explained by nature, not divine punishment (Medicine/Philosophy) |
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| 9 |
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360 BC |
Plato
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3D |
Platonic solids and the idea of perfect, space-filling geometric forms (Mathematics/Philosophy) |
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| 10 |
270 BC |
Aristarchus
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3D |
Heliocentric solar system - Earth orbiting the Sun (Astronomy) |
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| 11 |
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250 BC |
Archimedes
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3D |
Laws of levers, buoyancy, mechanical inventions, screws, spirals and pi (Science/Technology) |
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