Andreas Vesalius is very interesting. He had a very exciting background and was able to discover many earth-shattering discoveries in the anatomical field. To publish his discoveries, Andreas Vesalius published many books that were read, copied, and read again until almost every scientist in the whole world knew about his discoveries. These publications and discoveries helped Andreas gain a lot of recognition in the scientific revolution.
Andreas Vesalius was born on December 31, 1514 at Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands (a part of modern day Belgium) to Anne van Hamme and Andreas Vesalius (his dad). He was born into a family of many physicians, two of which (his dad and grandfather) were royal physicians to the holy Roman Emperor. When Andreas was a boy, he liked to dissect animals and his interest was increased when he went to the University of Paris in 1533. There he was taught by Johannes Quinterus and Jacobus Sylvius and his interest in dissection reached a high point when his teachers and fellow students strongly wanted him to publicly dissect animals and explain what their parts are for. After a while, Andreas went to Venice and then, Padua where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Then he was appointed professor at the University of Padua.
As a professor, Andreas personally dissected bodies and told about them contrary to other professors of the time who would read chapters out of Galen’s book while a surgeon dissected it. Later on, he discovered that some of Galen’s observations were wrong and he concluded that Galen has never dissected a human body but dissected apes and other animals similar to humans. Later in his life, he was appointed imperial physician to Emperor Charles V just like his dad and grandfathe...
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...ilages, ligaments and muscles, veins and arteries, nerves, organs, organs associated with the heart, and the brain. This book was not only written as a description of the body but also to point out Galen’s mistakes. Another one of Andreas’ publications is the Venesection Letter. This is a letter that explains that if someone feels side pain, it may be due to the auxiliary vein in the right elbow being cut. In the letter, he says that the only way to stop the pain is to draw blood from the site of the pain. The purpose for this book is for him to be able to supports his arguments from the venous system and not from his books. Another one of Andreas’ publications is the Epistle on the China Root. In this, he describes a herbal medicine that is able to cure gout, syphilis, and stone. This work is another one that tells of the mistakes Galen made and a reply to critics.
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Archeology, which is the study of human activity in the past, has many significant names that discovered important sites to the history of art. One of these names is Heinrich Schliemann. Heinrich Schliemann was born on 6th of January, 1822, and died on December 26th, 1890. Schliemann was a businessman who could speak 15 languages, and he was a world traveler. His father used to read for him Homer’s Iliad when he was eight years old, which made his biggest dream is to become archeological and find about the places that Homer talked about. Schliemann, as a businessman, made a fortune, which was enough for him to retire; then, in 1871, he started to follow his dream and worked on Troy. Heinrich Schliemann work is very important and added a significant value to the history of art. His discoveries in Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns made him a pioneer in archeology.
During this time, knowledge of human biology was extremely limited. This is partially due to a papal bull issued by Pope Boniface VIII that forbid the dissection of corpses. 10
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Motier, Switzerland on May 28, 1807. Born the son of a Protestant pastor, Louis Agassiz was raised in a religious environment but clearly possessed a deep interest in natural history and science. “I spent most of the time I could spare…in hunting the neighboring woods and meadows for birds, insects, and land and fresh water shells” (Lurie 9). Throughout his childhood and adolescence, his curiosities about nature and its origins drove him to become a prominent figure in natural history, zoology, and ichthyology.
Furthermore, Aristotle and Galen’s theories contributed to the Renaissance revival of heart anatomy. This reawakening made it possible for physicians to indicate the basic arrangement of the heart. It became commonly accepted that the heart was divided into four parts: two ventricles (lower chambers that pump blood out) and two auricles (upper chamber that r...
Bragg, Melvyn, On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
"Leonardo went a step further to figure out how the bodily systems beneath the surface worked. Leonardo's early paintings were studies in a new humanistic style of art, and he was far ahead of his contemporaries in this regard." Doc. 4 Leonardo kept journals full of sketches and designs. Some of the sketches included the anatomy of the human body. With granted permission, da Vinci would dissect the bodies of deceased humans to get a better understanding of the body. His journals were filled with precise drawings of various regions of the male and female anatomy and were some of the first to accurately and clearly display the human body. Leonardo was able to do so with geometric proportions in his drawing known as Vitruvian Man. His detailed dissections, along with many other methods, played a big role in the development of a new kind of painting style that made the paintings and their background give off a three-dimensional illusion.
Gracia, Diego (1978): "The structure of medical knowledge in Aristotle's philosophy", Sudhoff Archiv 62 (No.1), 1-36.
Tiner, John Hudson. Exploring the History of Medicine: From the Ancient Physicians of Pharaoh to Genetic Engineering. Green Forest: Master, 2009. Print.
Leonardo Da Vinci is famous as a painter, sculptor and inventor. In reality he was so much more, with the range of topics in his arsenal of knowledge being anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to name a few. He did play a large role in the development of knowledge about anatomy and the human body. He was one of the greatest anatomists of his time, although unrecognized for it during his lifetime.
The Romans used both scientific and mythological methods in their medicine. By adopting the methods of Greek medicine; the Romans obtained a solid foundation. They copied Hippocrates, who separated the study of medicine from philosophy and had an overall approach to the health of humans. Hippocrates also observed the habits and environment of humans to accurately determine illnesses and discover treatments. The Romans adapted the Hippocratic method and combined it with mythical and religious views. The Romans used Greek methods, and also included prayers and offerings to the gods. Although all gods had healing powers, Aesculapius, the god of healing, was the most important.
Beginning around 460 BC, the concept of humoralism emerged throughout the written works of Hippocrates. These early works, some of the only medical works of this detailed nature to survive this period, delineated one of the first ways scholars and physicians viewed the body and more importantly illness. Shaped by the Hippocratics’ version of humoralism and his own interpretations of their written works, Galen resolutely supported the fundamental four-element theory, the notion of the four humors, and the essential practice of healing by applying opposites by physicians. However, Galen’s education in anatomy proved an effective advance in his medical reasoning away from a non-ontological view of illness into a considerably more ontological and
Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties.
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was born in Buda, Hungary on July 1, 1818. Although he was born in Hungary, his family was of German origin. Semmelweis traveled to Vienna in the fall of 1837 and enrolled in medical school. His father had wanted Ignaz to study law, but shortly after he arrived in Vienna, Ignaz was attracted to medicine. At the age of twenty-five he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Vienna in 1844. Later on that year he earned his Master of Midwifery.
David Velleman’s “Against the Right to Die”, has given me some mixed feelings as to what I feel is right or wrong when it comes to euthanasia. Euthanasia can be a touchy subject depending on the point of view one takes on. As far as Velleman’s view, he stands right in between being for it and against it from what I have come to understand.