Oenopides of Chios

Oenopides of Chios (flourished c. 475 bce) thought that heat stored in the ground during the winter dries up the underground veins of water so that the river shrinks. In the summer the heat disappears, and water flows up into the river, causing floods. In…

…discovery of the ecliptic to Oenopides in the latter part of the 5th century bce, a parallel development in both Greece and Babylon should not be excluded.