A. Plan of the investigation
The topic of this investigation is “What impact did the renaissance have on medicine?”. I chose this subject because I wanted to see the changes the Renaissance made in a specific field. I thought medicine was interesting since it is an aggregation of many different fields such as science, art and religion. I will focus on the changes that were made and the differences from the Medieval times by investigating the important figures at that time. For this investigation, I will use a painting and a website to show the progress of medicine during the Renaissance with an evaluation of the origin, purpose, value and limitation of these sources. Then, I will analyze in what ways medicine was improved and the limitations …show more content…
This allowed physicians to get a better knowledge of the human body and the human anatomy. Andreas Vesalius (December 31, 1514 - October 15, 1564) and Leonardo Da Vinci (December 31, 1514 - October 15, 1564) dissected human bodies and made drawings with great details of the entire human body. [3]
Andreas Vesalius
Born December 1514 in the duchy of Brabant and died in June 1564 in the island of Zacynthus, Republic of Venice. From a family of doctors and pharmacists.[4]
Learned how to do animal dissections at the medical school of the University of Paris. Later dissected human bodies and examined human bones from the Paris cemeteries.[5]
In 1536, Vesalius returned to the duchy of Brabant to attend the Catholic University of Leuven. Then he went to the University of Padua where anatomical dissection was very developed.[6]
As he did dissections as the professor of surgery in the University of Padua, Vesalius found out flaws in the Greek physician Galen’s theory on the human anatomy which people still used at that time and came up with his own. Galen’s theory was flawed since it was forbidden to dissect human cadavers in Greece so he dissected animals instead and used that as a reference to his
The topic of this investigation is “What impact did the renaissance have on medicine?”. I chose this subject because I wanted to see the changes the Renaissance made in a specific field. I thought medicine was interesting since it is an aggregation of many different fields such as science, art and religion. I will focus on the changes that were made and the differences from the Medieval times by investigating the important figures at that time. For this investigation, I will use a painting and a website to show the progress of medicine during the Renaissance with an evaluation of the origin, purpose, value and limitation of these sources. Then, I will analyze in what ways medicine was improved and the limitations …show more content…
This allowed physicians to get a better knowledge of the human body and the human anatomy. Andreas Vesalius (December 31, 1514 - October 15, 1564) and Leonardo Da Vinci (December 31, 1514 - October 15, 1564) dissected human bodies and made drawings with great details of the entire human body. [3]
Andreas Vesalius
Born December 1514 in the duchy of Brabant and died in June 1564 in the island of Zacynthus, Republic of Venice. From a family of doctors and pharmacists.[4]
Learned how to do animal dissections at the medical school of the University of Paris. Later dissected human bodies and examined human bones from the Paris cemeteries.[5]
In 1536, Vesalius returned to the duchy of Brabant to attend the Catholic University of Leuven. Then he went to the University of Padua where anatomical dissection was very developed.[6]
As he did dissections as the professor of surgery in the University of Padua, Vesalius found out flaws in the Greek physician Galen’s theory on the human anatomy which people still used at that time and came up with his own. Galen’s theory was flawed since it was forbidden to dissect human cadavers in Greece so he dissected animals instead and used that as a reference to his