BIOL 400 Study Guide - Final Guide: René Descartes, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Vitalism
19 Apr 2018
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Alexandria: herophilus (c. 330 c. 260 bc) and erasistratus (c. 310 250 bc) were both physicians and anatomists at alexandria. Their writings do not survive, but are known via secondary sources: both probably performed human dissection. Christian writers, centuries later, accused them of performing vivisections on criminals, but this remains unproven: their physiology and anatomy, animal spirits, which are carried by the hollow nerves to the muscles. Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519: learned anatomy as a teenage art apprentice, continued with anatomy and biology into adulthood, his main influence in biology was his interpretation of anatomy into art. Andreas vesalius (1514-1564: first high quality book of human anatomy (cid:498)on the fabric of the human body(cid:499) from childhood the question of what composed animals occupied. Sylvius decomposed slower: very methodical and thorough lectures where 500 people would attend, displayed skeleton and exposed several corpes showing different structures (muscles, blood vessels, nervous system, organs of the chest and abdomen) to make relationships clear.
