Chapter 13 Flashcards
Most famous early Hebrew naturalist
Solomon
The idea that living things can arise from non living things
Spontaneous generation
Greek philosopher who put together the doctrine of ideas- taught that only ideas are absolute
Plato
Greek philosopher who vigorously promoted scientific work and made advances in comparative anatomy and classification
Aristotle
Developed by Aristotle, a philosophy that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality
Doctrine of intellect
A Greek physician and anatomist who lived in Rome- became the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years
Galen
Wrote Natural History
Pliny the Elder
Established schools
Nestorian Christians
Wrote Herbarum Vivar Eicones (Living pictures of Herbs)
Otto Brunfels
Wrote Natural History of Plants
Leonhard Fuchs
Swiss naturalist that wrote Histoiaeb Animalium (History of Animals) and the Opera Botanica
Konrad Gesner
“Father of Anatomy”-wrote Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius
An English physician and physiologist known for his work on the circulation of blood
William Harvey
The study of the function of body structures
Physiology
The idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spiritual or supernatural aspects
Materialism
A Puritan clergyman who led in the formation of philosophical college
-Founded Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge
John Wilkins
Founded in Paris 1666
French Academy of Sciences
French Protestants
Huguenots
Group of Calvinist French Catholics who emphasized salvation through God’s love and grace
Jansenists
Most outstanding Jansenist, great mathematician and scientist
Blaise Pascal
Published Micrographia in which he described the “cells” of cork.
Robert Hooke
Dutch naturalist who devoted his life the studies with the microscope
I’m Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Maintains all living things are composed of living units called cells and of cell products and that all cells come from preexisting cells
Cell theory
Experiments in which all factors are identical except the one being tested
Controlled experiment