BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Chain Of Being, Hippocratic Corpus, Hippocratic Oath

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

Document Summary

Biology: defined in 1802 investigation of various forms of life, and the laws that control their existence. 400 bce-450ce: greek and roman industry based economy: exploited resources from places around europe, africa, rome was central to the empire. First biologists: hippocrates, human biology, given the accolade the father of medicine took inventories of human disease and treatment, and puts it together to form the. 450-16th century hits in 1347: 1 in 3 to 1 in 2 people died of the plague from 1347-51 (all happened in a 6-7 year period, europe"s rise begins in 1500, biology continues to be only inventories. During europe"s dark ages the middle east flourishes and enters it"s golden age: al-jahiz - begins selective breeding; evolution and natural selection, al-dinawari added to theophrastus" list and studies the lifecycle to improve groupings. During his studies he learns of different plant stages and adds to theophrastus" work: avicenna combines european, middle-eastern, and indian medicine with the hippocratic.