GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Andreas Vesalius, Nicolaus Copernicus
31 Jul 2016
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The crisis of the 1500s and the scientific method. Scientific method born in europe in the 1600"s. Other nations thought of europe as backwater religious fanatics, poor people. Women are more fertile earth (dense) and water. Earthly world was violent/sinful but was hierarchical, integrated, and static. Everyone and everything had a defined place in medieval europe. Viewpoint of artistotle, ptolemy, hippocrates, galen, other greeks. Different translations of aristotle were not the same. Nicholas copernicus determined that ptolemy was wrong: the earth was not at the center of the universe. The fiery sun was at the center of the universe, turning the whole structure upside down; the world that you knew is no longer true. Andreas vesalius: the great anatomist galen was right about the human body but many observations of the anatomy was wrong. He had limited access to bodies, a lot of his work was based on animal dissection.
