BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Chain Of Being, Folk Taxonomy, Abu Hanifa Dinawari

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

Document Summary

Douglas adams wrote a book about what he thought the major events in science were. He split up the events into four ages (the four ages of sand). He decided that the four major events were the invention of the telescope, microscope, computer chip and fiber optics. One of the islamic scientists in the medieval ages. He wrote 6 volumes of books about plants. He also added 600 plants that were found in the middle east to theophrastus" work. Alhazen is credited for creating the scientific theory that we still use today. He created the procedure of coming up with a question, following up with experiments and coming to a conclusion. Al-jahiz proposed that animals were in constant competition with each other and that they could develop characteristics that could help them in survival. He also said that the animal with the characteristics better suited for the environment would survive and reproduce.