How is the process of thinking chronologically similar to that of creating a timeline?

Thinking chronologically is the same as placing events on a timeline.

Explanation:

When you think of events in order (chronologically) you place them on a sort of a timeline in your mind.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.