Chapter 13 Flashcards
What was man commanded by God to do in Genesis 1:28 with creation?
subdue the earth for the glory of God and for the good of humanity
What was the people group who whose most notable progress was in the study of human anatomy, physiology, and nature?
Hebrews (Jews)
Who was the most famous early Hebrew naturalist?
Soloman
Who is a person who uses knowledge of science for the benefit of mankind?
naturalist
What was the people group who borrowed the wisdom of the ancients and led them to a demonstration of the unity and consistency in nature?
Greeks
What was the early Greek naturalist who advocated an explanation for the origin of life based solely on natural principles?
Anaximander
What is the idea that living things can arise from nonliving things?
spontaneous generation
What is the teaching that all living things developed from a common ancestor?
evolution
Who was an early Greek philosopher whose thoughts influences Western science?
Plato
What is the system of thought developed by Plato that is the based on the idea that the physical world is not genuinely real?
doctrine of ideas
Who was Plato’s most famous disciple as well as a Greek naturalist and philosopher?
Aristotle
What is the system of thought developed by Aristotle that is based on the idea that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality?
Aristotle
What was the people group who were compilers of knowledge who made many original advances in natural science?
Romans
Who was a Roman general who wrote the book Natural History?
Pliny the Elder
What was the book that touched on many scientific subjects but was considered to be of little scientific value?
Natual History
What was a Greek physician whose work became the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years?
Galen
What was a Greek sect of Christianity?
Nestorians
What was modern science built on?
biblical principles
What was the hallmark of the Protestant movement that made people very interested in the natural world that the God of the Scriptures had created?
the return to the authority of the Scriptures
Who was the great German Reformer who set a good example to his followers for using the Scriptures to arrive at an understanding of reality?
Martin Luther
What was a Protestant pastor and schoolmaster who wrote Herbarium Vivae Eicanes?
Otto Brunfels
What was the book that had more that 250 plane illustrations?
Herbarium
Who taught at the Protestant university in Tubinen and accurately illustrated 500 medicinal plants?
Leonhard Fuchs
Who was probably the best-educated naturalist of his day?
Konrad Gesner
