The Conklin Cottage of Curiosity

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Bronze Age

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1000

    Iron Age

  • Period: 500 BCE to 600 BCE

    Ionian School of Pre-Socratic Philosophy

    Anaximander, Anaximenes, Thales, Heraclitus
    • Scientific belief that everything was made of four elements: earth, fire, water, and air
  • 490 BCE

    Empedocles

    Empedocles
    • Scientific belief that everything was made of four elements: earth, fire, water, and air
  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    • Scientific belief that everything was made of uncuttable bits of colorless, smell-less, tasteless matter — the beginning of atoms
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    • Scientific belief in four opposite elements (hot, cold, moist, dry) and four simple bodies (fire, air, water, earth) that in combination and with form make up all matter.
  • 341 BCE

    Epicurus

    Epicurus
    • Scientific belief that everything was made of uncuttable bits of colorless, smell-less, tasteless matter — the beginning of atoms
  • 100 BCE

    Lucretius

    Lucretius
    • Scientific belief that everything was made of uncuttable bits of colorless, smell-less, tasteless matter — the beginning of atoms
  • Period: to

    Queen Anne's War

  • Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards
    Preacher and theologian instrumental in the First Great Awakening
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
  • Period: to

    King George II's Reign

  • Period: to

    First Great Awakening

  • Lightning Rod Invented

    Lightning Rod Invented