Time since building of Stonehenge

Time since building of Stonehenge (5,120 y)

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If Time since building of Stonehenge (5,120 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Age of earliest stone hand axe (2.6 million y)...more would be 500 x Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period (2.58 million y)...more would be 500 x Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be about as big as Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the earliest writing (5,100 y)...more would be about as big as Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the birth of Pythagoras (2,594 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the birth of Hero of Alexandria (2,014 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the birth of Joseph Fourier (256 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the first iron steamship crossed the English Channel (202 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since birth of M. C. Escher (126 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since building of Stonehenge
  • Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since building of Stonehenge

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