17th Century Flashcards

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Century of the genius
Reason and knowledge and experimentation
Mechanistic and mechanical

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17th century

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Major influence which emphasized on astrology and medicine, biology, spherical earth, deduction, teleology, syllogism

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Aristotelianism

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Major influence which emphasized on the use of chemicals, with the human body as a chemical machine, and use of minerals for treatments

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Paracelsianism

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Father of modern philosophy, founder of analytical geometry;
All natural objects were machines ruled by mechanistic principle
Tutored queen christina of sweden

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Rene Descartes

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Father of empiricism
Helicentric world
Inductive method
Freezing for the preservation of meat

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Francis bacon

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Founder of Iatrochemical School of Medicine in Leiden

Throy based on the concept of body acid base balance

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Franciscus Sylvius

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Founder of pneumatic chemistry
Leading iatrochemist of the 17th centiry
Specific gravity

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Jan Pabtista von helmont

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Concept: the differences in physical objects were due to the shape, size, arrangements, and motion of atoms which were infinite in number

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Atomism

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Devised the pneumatic engine, self-flowing mask, air pump.

Law which states: the volume of gas varies inverselt with the pressure at a constant temperature

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Robert Boyle

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Astronomer, physicist
Father of modern astronomy
Invented the thermoscope, military compass, and pendulum
Improved the telescope, 4 large moons of jupiter, phases of venus, and rings of saturn
Falling bodies at constant rate regardless of mass

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Galileo Galilei

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Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitations

Observed the spectrum of colors

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Concept of the explanation of medicine of a phenomenon in which objects in motion resembles a machine

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Iatrophysics

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established proof of continuous circulation of blood within a contained system
Theory of epigenesis

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William harvey

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Opened up the world of mirobiology
First to recognize blood corpuscles
Spermatozoa, bacteria, and protozoa

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Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek

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First to transfure blood directly

Color difference between arterial and venous blood was due to contact with air in the lungs

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Richard Lower

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Wrote the first full-scale treatise on occupational health: Occupational hazard.

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Benardino Ramazzini