History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Georg Ernst Stahl, Pineal Gland, Edward Jenner
11 Mar 2014
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16-17 centuries: shifting from a medieval society to early modern society in europe, major theme: medicine and theology separate, takes almost a century to fully separate, european society is changing, urbanization happening. Effects diseases and the way people perceive religion. Scientific revolution: problems with term = revolution = rapid change, medieval scholars were not as backwards as revolution makes it seem like they were, science = referring to natural philosophy (study of nature, universe and how it works) At this point, if you read the word science, it is being used for synonym for knowledge". Philosophers reconceptualising the way the world is understood. He viewed material world as pure mechanism: believed world was like a machine governed by its own laws, that world was created by god, but conceptualizes god as a. Principle seat of the soul = pineal gland. Point of intellect between brain and body.
