• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Rudimentary atomic theory was independently “discovered” multiple times and places throughout history.

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      Hippocrates also described the four humors.

      Their theory of atoms was also that they were indivisible, being the most basic building block of all matter. Obviously now we know that that’s not true.

      They described a lot of things, and were wrong more often than not. Their biggest contribution was really just progress in the scientific method itself.