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1
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The scholastics did very little of what in science?

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direct study of nature

2
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science can exist without what but needs what?

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extensive technology (Greeks)

but needs literacy

3
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Technology can exist without what two things?

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science
(middle ages)

literacy (passed on from master to apprentice, verbally or demonstration)

4
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In the middle ages, what did science become established in?

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technology and commerce, not in written scholarship or the church. Therefore the church lost control of science

5
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What was the reformation? Who initiated it?

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was initiated by Martin Luther 1517

western European christianity fractured into Catholic and protestant camps

6
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What middle age technology had importance in later science?

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wine press–> printing press

trebuchet

horse shoe

a metal plow

7
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Who invented the printing press?

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Johannes Gutenberg 1440

8
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What did geographic discoveries do?

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brought back new plants and animals to europe

9
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What did Copernicus study and what did he argue in favour of?

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Astronomy

on the motions of heavenly Bodies (1543) argued in favour of the heliocentric model of the solar system

10
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What did Kepler study and what were his findings?

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astronomy

he showed that planetary orbits are ellipses not circles

11
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What did galileo study?

what did he discover?

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astronomy, physics, math, philosophy, scientific method

was one of the first to use a telescope and he discovered imperfections; sunspots, mountains on the moon, jupiter’s moons

12
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What did Isaac Newton study and what were his ideas?

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astronomy, physics, math, phil of science

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

13
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Leonardo Da Vinci

what was the state of his scientific work?

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finished very few of them, did not organize or publish any scientific works

14
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What was Leo’s affect on anatomy?

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he incorporated anatomy into his art

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What did Vesalius do?

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he produced the first accurate, high-quality book of human anatomy ever published: on the Fabric of the Human Body(1543)

16
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Copernicus was to ptolemy, as Vesalius was to who?

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Galen

17
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Vesalius viewed Galenic anatomy how?

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Skeptically due to discrepancies noticed

18
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Who did Vesalius do dissections under?

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Jacobus Sylvius (a Galenist)

19
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Where did Vesalius graduate and teach ? how old was he?

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university of Padua

became a teacher in anatomy right after graduation at 22

20
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When did modern medicine “begin”

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When Vesalius realized that Galen had never dissected a body

21
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What was a struggle that Vesalius had with teaching?

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finding bodies was very hard. He had to make friends with a judge so he could give the dead criminal bodies to him

22
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Vesalius’s book had two main virtues what were they?

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anatomical correctness and high-quality illustrations. Also it was printed, so it was widely avalible

23
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What were the Fabric of the human bodies 7 parts?

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skeleton

muscles

vascular system

nervous system

abdominal viscera

thorasic viscera

brain/ eye

24
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Vesalius’s anatomy went beyond Galen but what did not?

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His physiology did not

did not propose the circulation of the Blood

25
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What part of Galen’s philosophy did Vesalius accept?

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that the human body was perfectly designed by god

26
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What trend did Vasalius start with his illustrations in his book?

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putting bodies in natural situations ( dancing, standing, moving around)

27
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Who was Micheal Servetus?

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An intellect, martyr to freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. A wandering student, scholar, physician, and anatomist.

Followed Vesalius to uni of Paris, did dissections for Jacobus Sylvius and was the first to propose pulmonary circulation.

28
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What was the book that got Michael servetus in trouble?

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Restoration of Christianity

29
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what did Michael servetus propose in his book and what were his reasons?

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argument for pulmonary circulation

no pores in septum

pulmonary artery is huge

blood in pulmonary is dark red blood in veins is light red

30
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What was Realdo Colombo?

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anatomist and successor to Vesalius at the university of Padua.

31
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What did Colombo think about Vesalius’s work?

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thought that there was anatomical errors in “On the Fabric of the Human Body”

32
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Who was Girolamo Fabrici? and what was his book about?

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student and (bad) teacher at the university of Padua

was interested and wrote a book about the valves and veins of the circulatory system

33
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who was William Harvey?

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student of Girolamo Fabrici at Padua.

Physician to two english Kings

Concluded that blood circulates in 1616 (both pulmonary and systemic)

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what were William Harvey’s observations and arguments regarding blood circulation?

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valves in the veins ensure the one way flow of blood (this can be domonstrated on a living person)

if you tie off an artery in a living animal the side towards the heart bulges

if you tie off a vein the side away from the heart bulges

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What questions did William Harvey leave unanswered?

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what does the liver do?

how do tissues get nourished?

what is the function of respiration?

what is the different between blood in artery and blood in vein?

36
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What was the significance of Harvey’s work?

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double circuit

model of experimental/ quantitative biology

highlighted mechanical function of organisms

suggested blood transfusions for blood loss treatment

37
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What is Mechanicism?

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living processes are the consequence of fundamental laws of physics, mechanics and chemistry

38
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What is Vitalism?

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living processes depend upon a vital force that is not explainable in physics, mechanical or chemical terms

39
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Who was Rene Descartes?

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crude but influential mechanisms

proposed a model of living mechanisms that involved physics and engineering but not chemistry

40
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What did Descartes think about the soul?

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that humans have souls but animals do not

41
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Place these notable science guys in order from oldest to most recent:
Galileo Galilei, Andreas Vesalius, Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Leonardo Da Vinci

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  1. Leonardo Da Vinci
  2. Copernicus
  3. Andreas Vesalius
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Johannes Kepler
  6. Sir Isaac Newton