BIOL 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ilya Prigogine, Hippocratic Corpus, Plate Tectonics
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Historical problem and how biology has responded (idea: use of. Not a chronology; conceptual development of what people thought. Eg. genetic is very huge, so focus on a period. Resources not necessarily journals; notebooks are ok don"t ever use a website. Primary of place in nature and teleology. Heavens perfectly eternal, characterized by circular motion/fixity (aritstotle recognized that made of aether which gave rise to circular motion) man. Earth (downward motion) is governed by fire air water earth and back to fire. plant. Petrified/fossilized tree is not something new to aristotle because of. The earthly realm by earth, fire, air and water which transformed one. No expectation that earthly phenomena would be perfectly known the into the other (organic) way eternal ideas could be. In the sense of how we think what an experiment is. Demonstration because didn"t provoke new experiments; just observed. Doesn"t seem to follow aristotle"s belief - man is equal to god .
