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Life science notes from class SCIE208.
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Prescientific thought:• Classical thinkers: ancient Greeks and Romans. Relied on myths.
• Greek philosopher Democritus suggested that all matter might consist of atoms.
• Alchemy combined scienti c procedures with almost mythological concepts.
• 1600s, Galileo could not only speculate about the structure of the solar system but
could also construct a telescope to study it.
• Copernicus had proposed that the sun was the center of the solar system, whereas
the church purported the idea that earth was the center.
• Galileo investigated Copernicus's heliocentric system and could back up this
hypothesis with facts.
• Francesco REDI decided to prove or disprove spontaneous generation
• Redi created control- a restriction on experimental conditions.
• 1600s, scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek got the rst glimpse of bacteria when he
scraped tartar from his own teeth and examined it under a microscope.
• Louis Pasteur discovered the connection bet ween bacteria and humans. Worked in
France in the second half of the 19th century. Anaerobe- might be linked to certain
kinds of infections
• Ilya mechnikov discovered the workings of the immune system.
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