HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Natural Science, Andreas Vesalius, Edwin Smith Papyrus
5 Dec 2020
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Counting/numbers (35. 000-20. 000 bce): markings/lines in bones and stones. Number names indicate that the invention of numbers was a slow process. Different base systems and multiples of 5/10s took time to invent. Fertile crescent (3. 000 bce): region in the middle east with a high level of civilization, including ancient mesopotamian & ancient egyptians. Invention like the wheel in the fifth millennium bce. Back then they were perplexed by how an injury in the head caused problems with the legs. Philosophy (600 bce): critical reflection on the universe and human functioning: started in. Heraclitus (535-475 bce): if you do the same thing twice it would not be the same because everything is constantly changing . Socrates (470-399 bce) thought that writing would make people bad at remembering things themselves so was against written recordings. Hippocrates (460-370 bce): greek physician, father of (modern) medicine. Plato"s cave: 3 parts of the soul, reason (brain, appetite and lower passions (liver, sensation and emotion (heart)
