scientific revolution and human body

Question 1

science in the 15/16 centuries

Answer 1

medieval technology stimnulated science

- science can exist without extensive technology (vice versa) but science needs literacy

Question 2

medeival technology

Answer 2

power- water mills, drying grain, windmills, wine presses, horse shoes, steel plows, weaponry

Question 3

the reformation

Answer 3

martin luther 1517

- western european christianity fractured into cathologic and protestant camps

Question 4

printing press

Answer 4

Johannes gutenberg 1440-1450
- accurate, inexpensive, widespread literacy, good illustrations, no central authority, altered intergenerational relationships, individualism “word of no one”

Question 5

copernicus: astronomy

1473-1543

Answer 5

argued in favor of heliocentric model of solar system

- mapped stars

Question 6

Johannes kepler: astronomy

1571-1630

Answer 6

Showed that planetary orbits are ellipses not circles

Question 7

galileo galelei: astronomy, physics, mathematics, scientific method

Answer 7

One of first to use telescope, discovered imperfections (sunspots, mountains, Jupiters moons)
was put under house arrest

Question 8

sir isaac newton: astronomy, physics, mathematics

1642-1727

Answer 8

newton entrenched the idea that the universe operates according to simple, universal quantitative laws

Question 9

leonardo da vinci

1452-1519

Answer 9

finished few projects and did not organize or publish work

- learned anatomy and incorporated into art

Question 10

andreas vesalius: 1514-1564

Answer 10

first human anatomy book ever published “on the fabric of the human body
- studied in Paris and did dissections for a galenist
noticed discrepensies
lecturer-demonstrater at age 22