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13 Cards in this Set
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Hebrews |
People who had a distinct advantage over other ancient people in the study of the natural world because the possessed God's truth as preserved in the scriptures |
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Solomon |
King of Israel who studied natural history |
David's son |
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Greeks |
Ancient civilization whose people developed many ideas about nature but were blinded by superstition |
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Spontaneous generation |
Idea that living things can arise from nonliving things |
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Evolution |
Teaching that all living things developed from a common ancestor |
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Plato |
Early Greek philosopher who developed the doctrine of ideas |
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Doctrine of ideas |
System of thought developed by Plato based on the idea that the physical world is not genuinely real |
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Doctrine of intellect |
System of thought developed by Aristotle based on the idea that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality |
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Romans |
Ancient civilization that compiled and spread the natural science of the Greeks and other earlier civilizations |
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Pliny the Elder |
Roman general who wrote Natural History |
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Natural History |
Work by Pliny the Elder that touched on many scientific subject |
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Galen |
2nd Century Greek physician who was considered the absolute Authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years |
Claudius galenus |
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Nestorians |
Group of Greek Christians who carried ancient natural knowledge to Persia and help preserve this knowledge during the Middle Ages |
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