According to the text “Medicine and the human body” found in The World History Book it states that “British Physician Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox… Jenner discovered that inoculation with germs from a cattle disease called cowpox gave permanent protection from small smallpox in humans.” This evidence demonstrates that Edward Jenner is significant because he discovered that those who had cowpox could not be infected with smallpox which was a widespread disease that killed thousands of people or left hideous scars. He tested his theory on a dairymaid that was infected with cowpox and he injected her with the smallpox and discovered that she was not infected by the disease. This research supports my thesis that the scientific revolution was the most important period because Edward Jenner found a way to prevent a very deadly disease using vaccinations and this gave people new knowledge about how the human body reacts to different diseases. Also before this people had no knowledge of what bacteria was or how to cure diseases so this made people view their bodies …show more content…
In addition, the opposition cites evidence from “Amerigo Vespucci a text by Encyclopedia Britannica. The author maintains that “The Americas are named after the merchant, navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci… Vespucci and scholars first realized that the Americas were indeed a ‘New World’ and not part of Asia as Columbus had taught. This research attempts to prove that without Vespucci there would be a missing piece in Columbus's findings. Columbus had thought that the new world was apart of Asia and not a new world; so if Amerigo had not realized that America was not apart of Asia we might have been called something different