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- Middle Ages
- Persian polymath, philosopher & scientist
- Added Arabic, Islamic and Indian medicine to Hippocratic Corpus
- Summarized Greek, Indian and Muslim medicine
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- European Renaissance & Empiricism
- English Physician and Father of Anatomy
- Author of De humani corporis fabrica,one of the most influential books on human anatomy. "The Fabric of the Human Body"
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| Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) |
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- Student of Plato
- Tried to organize living world in his Scala Naturae according to complexity of structure and function
- Teological view: "intellectual purposes guide all natural processes"
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| Hippocrates (460-370 BCE) |
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- Father of Western Medicine
- Hippocratic Corpus: collection of 60 highly influential medical writings that shaped western medicine and contained all known about human biology at the time
- Hippocratic Oath
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| Theophrastus (371-287 BCE) |
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- Successor of Aristotle
- Father of botany and taxonomy
- 1st scientific inquiries into plants
- One of earliest systems of plant classification
- Plant classification important for medicine at the time as primary treatments were herbal
- Highly influential on science of Middle ages
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| Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788) |
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- Comte de Buffon
- Histoire naturelle
- Buffon's Law - 1st biogeography
- Theory of changing biodiversity
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| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) |
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- Transmutation of species in environmentalism
- Inheritance of acquired traits
- Early idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws
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