BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theophrastus, Physicalism, Scientific Method

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Major events in the history of biology (lectures 1-3) 400 bce - 450 ce: greek / roman ages: creates society that allowed people to share information (built the education system) 450 ce - 16th century: medieval ages: europe regains itself after the plague in the 11th century, knowledge about science could be shared again. 16th - 18th century: europe gets their scientific knowledge back. 400 bce - 450 ce: greek / roman ages. Hippocrates (460-370 bce: medicine, human biology, helped with organization, created hippocratic corpus. Collected information about medicine and human biology as reference for others to use. Aristotle (384 - 322 bce: tried to find a pattern for organisms so he could organize them, organized the organisms in ladder of life . 2 of 7: ranked organisms to how similar they were to the gods. Theophrastus (371 - 287 bce: student of aristotle, organized plants based on how it produced seeds, wrote 10 book about pants.