ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Al-Andalus
28 Sep 2017
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Aristotle: essentialism: believed everything as pure, heaven is perfect and matter and form as interdependent nothing needs to change, deduction theory. Lucretius and the first 3 stage laws: technology changed along with abilities of humans. Tacitus: studied ethnographies and administered control by categorizing (study people to control them) Early western conceptions of the world: early medieval: catholic church doctrine (focus on god as creator, the great chain of being: nothing changes (immutable), supreme authority, eternity of world in present form. Impacts of world on the west: aryabhata: earth revolves around the sun, al khwarizmi: arabic numerals for algebra, al andalus and reconquista: religion and philosophy, europe expands through exploration (e. x. china withdraws international trade) Valuing the past: re discover greek thought and roman engineering, merge humanism and christian theology. Leonardo da vinci: human form and reason, anti deluvian theory. Protestant reformation: vernacular language for worship lead to profilaration of christian sects (new language = different interpretations/versions of bible.
