HISTORY 3S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Carl Linnaeus, Tabula Rasa
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Lecture 4 enlightenment era physiology and scientific systems of exercise. What is now teaching people about the body is the body itself. Illustrations by leonardo da vinci describe origins and insertions of muscles. Johannes gutenberg (1400-1468: printing press c 1452, (cid:498)man of the millennium(cid:499, )nformation didn(cid:495)t have to be laboriously scripted, printer could print many pages quickly, first book the be printed was the bible. And made a book for people to read. Cristobal mendez, 1500-61: university od salamanca (spain, book of bodily exercise. Little understanding of human physiology: 4 humours and seasons was still the predominant model. Philosophy and the enlightenment paradigm shift 17-18 c ce world. Great (cid:498)scientific(cid:499) thinkers (cid:523)descartes, locke, (obbes, rousseau(cid:524) Natural philosophical thought focussing on the laws of nature and the natural. Society to be structured and operated in accordance with the operations of natural law. Natural law was accessible to man in a way that divine law was not.