HIST 1250 Lecture : f13hist1250lect7.pdf
7 Oct 2014
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Learning became more theological and became more secular. Mantegna used linear perspective to make his images look 3d. It was not taboo to perform animal dissections. The aim was to understand the general structure of the human body. Medical education was very informal and was done on a small scale unlike today. The place to be if you wanted medical education: university of padua court physician to. Looked at ancient knowledge as a stepping stone to gaining your own knowledge. E. g. galen (2nd c bce) was a surgeon for the gladiators. Vesalius used galen"s knowledge and used it as a stepping stone to gain his own knowledge. Book was dedicated to the emperor, thus obtaining emperor"s patronage. (b) empiricism. It is the notion that the best way to obtain knowledge is through your senses. So to understand anatomy don"t read galen"s text but instead learn through dissection first hand.
