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| the most famous early Hebrew naturalist. God made him wiser than "all the children of the east country and all the wisdom of Egypt" |
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| the philosophy which believes that all explanation of living things was to be found in nature itself, and teh supernatural was denied/ignored |
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| an early Greek naturalist who advocated an explanation for the origin of life known as spontaneous generation. |
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| the belief that living things can arise from nonliving things |
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| a philosophy of origins which usually begins with some form of spontaneous generation and continues with living things giving rise to other forms of living things |
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| Plato's philosophy that states that only ideas are absolute, and that the physical world is not genuinely real, but changeable and relative |
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| Aristotle's philosophy that states that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality |
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| named after Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, driven from Byzantium because of doctrinal disagreements, moved east, carried with them accumulated knowledge... |
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| a Roman Catholic monk who let the monastery at Strasbourg in 1521 and became a Protestant Pastor in a small village near Strasbourg. wrote Living Pictures of Herbs |
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| a lifelong man of science who graduated with a degree in medicine and at age 23, became a physician and lecturer. Protestant. the genus Fuchsia was named after him. |
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| Swiss naturalist who was probably the best-educated narturalist of his day. became professor of natural history and medicine at Zurich, Switzerland. a staunch Protestant, contributed a five-volume work called Historia Animalia to science. died treaing victimes of the Zurich plague before he could complete History of Plants |
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| presented to the world in 1543 his book on the structure of the human body. devout Roman Catholic from Brussels, studied the work of Galen, and saw many contradictions between Galen's books and the bodies that he was dissecting. wrote De Humani Corporis Fabric (The Structure of the Human Body). "Father of Anatomy." |
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| the study of the function of body structures |
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| an English physician and a great physiologist who was known for his classic work on the circulation of blood through the body. used the more advanced knowledge of anatomy to study how the heart worked. |
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| a Puritan clergyman who, in 1645 led in the formation of Philosophical College. one of the leading members in the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge. |
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| a group of Calvinist French Catholics who emphasized salvation through God's love and grace |
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| the most outstanding Jansenist, the great mathematician and scientist |
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| published his work Micrographia, in which he described the "cells" of cork. He was the first to devote an entire book exclusively to microscopic observations |
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| Dutch naturalist. the first person to devote his whole life to studies with the microscope. |
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| a special problem-solving method used to solve scientific problems, characterized by observation and experimentation; also called the research method |
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| in a controlled experiment, the group that is not tested by the variable factor |
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| the idea that the simplest forms of life arose by chance from nonliving matter; a modern term for spontaneous generation |
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| another term for abiogenesis |
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| a philosophy that erroneously asserts that all answers to life's problems can be found in science, and that nothing can be known apart from scientific investigation |
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