BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Malacostraca, Medicine Man, Hippocratic Corpus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Biology encompasses all manifestations of life, not just human. Rome falls: expansion impeding defence, barbarians got in (germanics, the goths, all infrastructure lost. Plague then kills of pop, start over. Greek and roman writings transferred to islamic world science continues here. Europeans sack islamic world, steal science and bring back to europe. Greek and roman ages (400 bce 450) Gave us hippocratic corpus: assembled everything known about human bio & medicine in one place as reference for people to use, made available to everybody else. Jellyfish etc on sides, higher plants & lower plants on bottom. Organized plants on how they made their seeds. Wrote 10 books, 9 still around (catalogs of plants: medical purposes plants were the pharmaceuticals, nutrition, fibre, structural elements wood good for construction, good fibres that can be turned into fabrics. Applying set of rules to how you group things together.