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100
500 BC
Everyone thought that the earth and sun and moon and stars were the only thing in the universe and nobody knew a thing about science. -
200
400 BC
Democritus introduces the idea of the atom, a little tiny ball that you cant see, and he thought that these little balls made up everything in the universe. -
200
400 BC
Plato makes the word element -
235
Artistole 335 BC
Artistole introduced the idea of the four elements Earth, Water, Fire, and Air and buried Democrituses atom theory for 2 whole milleniums -
300
300 BC
Everyone thought that Democritus's atom theory was rubbish and they thought he was crazy -
400
200 BC
Democritus's followers work harder to prove his theory right and makes a prediction of what an atom looks like. -
Mendeleev
Medeleev was born -
Mendeleev
only 5 years after Jon Newlands made his law of octaves, Mendeleev made him a periodic table -
Medeleev
Medeleev dies -
Atoms and Science now
now scientist have very cool technology that can help them actually see atoms and split them
