Renaissance (5)

Question 1

Renaissance origins

Answer 1

reconquest of Spain-led to islamic texts and texts of antiquity brought to Europe

• rise of city states in Italy
• Church supporting art
• The great dying from bubonic plaqu–> made people think of secular world more

Question 2

Where did renaissance begin and with what?

Answer 2

in Florence, revival of classical learning- philosophy, science and medicine (plato, aristotle, hippocrates, galen)

Question 3

Innovations in Renaissance (5)

Answer 3

science, art, compass, printing, gunpowder

Question 4

Erasmus

Answer 4

one of the fathers of galenism- made his own latin versions

Question 5

“Aldine Press”

Answer 5

published Galen in greek from arabic translations

Question 6

Jacobus Sylvius

Answer 6

“Galen and Hippocrates never wrote anything that wasn’t entirely true”

Question 7

who wrote “Order and Way of Reading Hippocrates and Galen”

Answer 7

Sylvius

Question 8

Andreas Vesalius

Answer 8

first anatomical illustrations- proponent of using human anatomy for medicine

Question 9

who wrote “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”?

Answer 9

Andreas Vesalius

Question 10

3 important concepts of De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Answer 10

the anatomist should perform his own dissection
the eye is preferred over reference to authority
anatomy is the key to medicine

Question 11

Fabricius

Answer 11

described the venous valves and their function

Question 12

Paracelsus

Answer 12

“father of pharmalcology” -homeopathy -made chemical “materia medica” tried to replace 4 humours with his own “salt, sulfur, mercury”

Question 13

Paracelsians

Answer 13

followers of Paracelsus -made many medicines-most bad

Question 14

Ambrois Pare

Answer 14

“father of surgery”