BIOL 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Regnier De Graaf, Nicolas Malebranche, Pangenesis
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Wild anecdote of what they thought of proof of things and idea of conception and development. How we come to understand that sperm and egg combine to form a zygote mentioned spores to discuss plants. Mechanistic vs. organic view: why aristotle saw petrified forest and not concerned - because he has organic view. Idea of different forms of matter turning into one another. Everything fit together: mechanistic view costs of it was that certain things didn"t seem to make sense anymore. Something coming out of nothing becomes a problem. God was now seen as the being who put into effect. Created everything including the rules and then stood back. Reproduction sexual vs. sexual reproduction and asexual (spontaneous generation: in 1600s, thought that reproduction only occur sexually. Did studies himself studied rabbits describe the follicles of the ovaries and interpreted them as ova see the eggs but described them as ova.
