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25 Cards in this Set
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Solomon |
Most famous early Hebrew Naturalist |
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Spontaneous generation |
Living things can arise from non living things |
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Evolution |
Ideas of creation without a creator |
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Plato |
Doctrine of ideas |
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Aristotle |
Doctrine of intellect |
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Pliny the Elder |
A Roman General Major scientific work: Natural History |
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Galen |
Greek Physician who lived in Rome |
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Nestorian Christians |
Named from Nestorius bishop of Constantinople |
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Otto Brunfels |
Protestant pastor and schoolmaster Wrote: living pictures of herbs |
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Leonhard Fuchs |
Wrote: The Natural History of Plants |
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Konrad Gesner |
Best educated naturalist of his day |
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Andreas Vesalius |
Father of Anatomy |
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William Harvey |
Studied blood circulation |
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Materialism |
Universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spiritual or supernatural aspects |
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John Wilkins |
Puritan clergyman |
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French academy of Sciences |
Founded in Paris 1666 |
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Blaise Pascal |
Most outstanding Jansenist was the great mathematician and scientist |
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Robert hooke |
Wrote: Micrographia |
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
First person to devote his whole life to studies with the microscope |
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Cell theory |
All living things are composed of living units called cells and of cell products and that all cells come from pre-existing cells |
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Scientific method |
A special process to solve scientific problems |
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Francesco Redi |
First scientist to present evidence against spontaneous generation |
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Louis Pasteur |
His experiments showed that not even the simplest of organisms can develop from non living matter |
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Law of Biogenesis |
Living things can only come from other living things |
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Scientism |
Idea that science can find answers for all problems in life |
