HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Nicolaus Copernicus, Copernican Revolution
15 Feb 2019
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Special year for science as 2 books are released; 1) de humani corporis fabrica (on the fabric of the human body), by. He is from brussels, studies medicine at the. A lecturer would be reading from galen in latin. There would be a demonstrator and points to the corpse with all the parts. He said students should be taught to use their hands. Galen but does it with respect and values the history. He contradicts in terms of content and methods. 2) on the revolutions of the celestial bodies, by nicholas copernicus. Also sometimes referred to as the copernican revolution. Poland, travels to italy and comes back to poland and workers as a minor priest. His system is still cumbersome because of the fact that he used the orbit as perfect circles. At that people were bothered by why there was so much free space in the universe.
