BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Physical Law, List Of Fables Characters, Melanism

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

Document Summary

Knowledge came back, was taken down again by the plague, came back w/ renaissance. God, higher angels, lower angels, man, birds, domesticated animals, plants, things living in ground, devil. Like what aristotle did, but changed to a certain extent based on monotheistic culture. Inside organism is special essence making an organism be of that type. All organisms were placed on the planet at one point in time; everything arrived at one point. Usher came to conclusion that everything arrived on planet on oct 23 4004 bc (saturday) A designer of some sort god. Killed 2/3 to of european population during a period of 6 or 7 years. Came out of it, got commerce or trade. Pharmaceutical plants, wrote 6 volumes & added descriptions of plants that were not in. Took practices of middle east and india, adding them to knowledge base of medicine at time. Found ways to prepare, administer & dose depending on disease being treated.