After the Greeks and Natural Theology Flashcards
The Father of anatomy, who used corpses to conduct studies of blood vessels. the brain, the heart, and nerves
Galen
British anatomist who was the first to describe blood circulation in detail
William Harvey
Father of Histology , Italian Physician who used a microscope to study animal Tissues , He was the first person to describe blood capillaries
Marcello Malpighi
Movement of the post reformation catholic church that believed the knowledge of God could be attained without revelation but by reason and example’s from the natural world
Natural theology
The 3 main concepts of natural theology
Age of the Earth
The Great Chain of Being
Variation Directed By God
man that calculated the Earths age according to biblical genealogies, totaling to 5654 years
Archbishop James Ussher
Archbishop James Usshers date for Earths creation
October 23 4004 BC @9am
Idea that species were fixed and could not change, it was based on the certainty of mathematics
Fixity of species
The Great chain of being organized things from - to -
simple
complex
according to natural theology, variation amoung species was the operation of
God’s design
Renaissance Era man who estimated the Earth to be 75000 to 3 million years old , including epochs in the history of Earth. Gained hate from the church
George Buffon
why did great advancements happen in geological science at the start of the industrial revolution?
commercial minerals were being mined, and people started to find fossils and patterns in the Earth
Father of Paleontology that coined stratigraphy- the idea that rocks occur in strata (layers)
Georges Cuvier
The rocks that are deeper must also be
older
Georges Cuvier composed an evolutionary theory hypothesis based on three assumptions
- species are fixed
2.species may become extinct
- different fossils occurred in different times based upon strata
French Biologist who thought change in species was directed toward perfection, and that an individual made a conscious effort to adapt within its lifetime
Jean Baptist Lamarck
theory proposed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck based off the idea that long necked giraffes gave their long necks to their offspring
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Charactersitics
Swedish botanist and taxonomist -called the father of taxonomy who developed principles of binomial nomenclature
Carl Linnaeus
British Geologist that published Principles of Geology on how geological forces have shaped the earth
Sir Charles Lyell
concept advanced by Sir Charles Lyell, stating that geological processes that operate now also operated in the past
uniformitarianism
idea endorsed by uniformitarianism that said earth is shaped constantly by slow moving forces acting over long periods of time
gradualism
concept opposite of gradualism and uniformitarianism that stated the earth has been shaped by sudden short -lived violent events , different now than in the past
catastrophism
