NATS 1690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Andreas Vesalius
12 Feb 2017
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During the renaissance is when more people started the history of our existence. He made direct observations with the cadavers of executed prisoners and compared animal cadavers to human cadavers and revealed mistakes in previous anatomy books. His work revealed many anatomical similarities between animals and humans proving. Kinship his work also placed humans in the natural world hence making us not special creations. He also established a more advanced scienti c method by showing the importance of. Bishop james usher calculated that the world was created in 4004bc and hence it was not enough time for evolution to take place. There was no evolution he believed in the xity of species concept, where as species are the same as when they were created. In the mid 1600s the invention of the microscope revealed microscopic organisms that were not mentioned in the bible and were considered to be vermin and evil.
