17th Century Flashcards
Century of the genius
Reason and knowledge and experimentation
Mechanistic and mechanical
17th century
Major influence which emphasized on astrology and medicine, biology, spherical earth, deduction, teleology, syllogism
Aristotelianism
Major influence which emphasized on the use of chemicals, with the human body as a chemical machine, and use of minerals for treatments
Paracelsianism
Father of modern philosophy, founder of analytical geometry;
All natural objects were machines ruled by mechanistic principle
Tutored queen christina of sweden
Rene Descartes
Father of empiricism
Helicentric world
Inductive method
Freezing for the preservation of meat
Francis bacon
Founder of Iatrochemical School of Medicine in Leiden
Throy based on the concept of body acid base balance
Franciscus Sylvius
Founder of pneumatic chemistry
Leading iatrochemist of the 17th centiry
Specific gravity
Jan Pabtista von helmont
Concept: the differences in physical objects were due to the shape, size, arrangements, and motion of atoms which were infinite in number
Atomism
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
Robert Boyle
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
Galileo Galilei
Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitations
Observed the spectrum of colors
Sir Isaac Newton
Concept of the explanation of medicine of a phenomenon in which objects in motion resembles a machine
Iatrophysics
established proof of continuous circulation of blood within a contained system
Theory of epigenesis
William harvey
Opened up the world of mirobiology
First to recognize blood corpuscles
Spermatozoa, bacteria, and protozoa
Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek
First to transfure blood directly
Color difference between arterial and venous blood was due to contact with air in the lungs
Richard Lower