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Most famous early Hebrew naturalist

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Solomon

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The idea that living things can arise from non living things

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Spontaneous generation

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Greek philosopher who put together the doctrine of ideas- taught that only ideas are absolute

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Plato

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Greek philosopher who vigorously promoted scientific work and made advances in comparative anatomy and classification

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Aristotle

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Developed by Aristotle, a philosophy that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality

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Doctrine of intellect

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A Greek physician and anatomist who lived in Rome- became the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years

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Galen

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Wrote Natural History

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Pliny the Elder

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Established schools

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Nestorian Christians

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Wrote Herbarum Vivar Eicones (Living pictures of Herbs)

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Otto Brunfels

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Wrote Natural History of Plants

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Leonhard Fuchs

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Swiss naturalist that wrote Histoiaeb Animalium (History of Animals) and the Opera Botanica

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Konrad Gesner

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“Father of Anatomy”-wrote Fabrica

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Andreas Vesalius

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An English physician and physiologist known for his work on the circulation of blood

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William Harvey

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The study of the function of body structures

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Physiology

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The idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spiritual or supernatural aspects

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Materialism

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A Puritan clergyman who led in the formation of philosophical college
-Founded Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge

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John Wilkins

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Founded in Paris 1666

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French Academy of Sciences

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French Protestants

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Huguenots

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Group of Calvinist French Catholics who emphasized salvation through God’s love and grace

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Jansenists

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Most outstanding Jansenist, great mathematician and scientist

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Blaise Pascal

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Published Micrographia in which he described the “cells” of cork.

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Robert Hooke

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Dutch naturalist who devoted his life the studies with the microscope

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I’m Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Maintains all living things are composed of living units called cells and of cell products and that all cells come from preexisting cells

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Cell theory

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Experiments in which all factors are identical except the one being tested

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Controlled experiment

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When a hypothesis has passed the test of many well designed experiments and has the support of other scientists

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Theory

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The one factor being tested

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Variable

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If a theory stands the test of time, and is verified by many experiments, it may eventually be referred to as a

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Scientific law

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Was one of the first scientist to present evidence against spontaneous generation

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Francesco Redi

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Used broth to show that not even the simplest of organisms can develop from no living matter.

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Louis Pasteur

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States, living things can only come from living things

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Law of biogenesis

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The idea that science can find answers for all problems in life

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Scientism