HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Andreas Vesalius, Novum Organum, Robert Fludd
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History 249 - health and healer in the western world. Does medicine also have a scientific revolution? yes and no (cid:224) medicine is not just understanding truths in the natural world but it is also about taking care of people (cid:224) craft as well as an enterprise. Developments (cid:224) rational argument for the plague was that a conjunction between the planets that circled around the. Earth thus forcing change = pestilence occurred: earth at the centre surrounded by planets which were moving motion is change geocentric, 1543 copernicus: on the revolution of the heavenly bodies" = heliocentric. = sci rev goes far deeper than just discoveries. People can think of new solutions new attitude towards experimentation and experiments often instruments that expand the human senses like telescopes and microscopes. Heleocentricism shoots the notion of celestial influence out of the water since there is no basis for this any longer. Name itself means beyond celsus" whom was one of the ancients.