HOST 3 Flashcards
Lifestyle-based prescription; about Egypt
Ibn Ridwan
Prescriptions as recipes; about women; Europe
Trotula
Science and theology; cosmic egg; walls of fire; gemstones
Hildegard
Music and science
Yue Ji
Discusses different schools of thought/philosophy in China; book of changes
Sima Tan
Return of philosophy to China; contemporary to Ricci
Xu Guangqi
Writing about China as an observer; writing for Europeans
Matteo Ricci
Spanish and Incan exchange; Columbian Exchange
Garcilaso de la Vega
Academic writing about Canada and Mi’kmaw
Prosper (Netukulimk)
Astronomy is written by many people without clarity or cohesion’; references Church in defence of his argument
Copernicus‘
Anatomy; first hand experience needed rather than the doctor being removed from dissection; inaccuracies in Galen
Vesalius
Advocating for single direct treatment instead of humours; alchemy and distillation; distillation of alcohol to produce medicines
Paracelsus
Baconianism; Human senses are full of errors so instruments help us to truly see clearly; spelling like ‘ghesses’
Hooke
Baconianism; structural mechanics; ‘I believe’ wording
Boyle
Writing in context of Newton; shape of the earth; connected to French voyages of mapping the earth
Du Châtelet
Systems of taxonomy are based on human perspectives; does not talk about species
Buffon
Taxonomy and classification are in relation to God; categorizing allows us to appreciate God’s creation; creationism; “species” keyword
Linnaeus
Snake bites and herbal medicine; American colonial context; slavery/slave trade
Caesar
Talks about cultural impact of science as opposed to McClellan and Dorn’s history focus; more critical of colonialism than McClellan and Dorn
Poskett
“First Paper on the Respiration of Animals”
Armand Séguin and Antoine Lavoisier
“Report to the Academy of Science on a Unit of Measure,” 19 March 1791
Condorcet et al.
