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ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest intellectual figures of Western history. He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the framework and vehicle for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. -
Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, bases knowledge from sensory experience, from scientific experimentation. He is the creator of the inductive method and thereby contributes to the causal explanation of reality
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Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, bases knowledge from sensory experience, from scientific experimentation. He is the creator of the inductive method and thereby contributes to the causal explanation of reality
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René Descartes, a French philosopher, argues that knowledge is obtained only through reason, from mental operations and reasoning. His approaches and those of Bacon promote the causal explanation of reality -
the creator of the classification of living things or taxonomy.
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he made the first attempt to provide meteorology with an epistemological status of its own. -
This German explorer obtained information on the geography, natural environment, and living things of South America, Central America, and Mexico. He planted a totalizing and integrating attitude of nature and proposed that plants can be studied based on their local association in different climates (plant geography) -
This German biologist first used the term ecology (ökologie) to refer to the relationships of living things with their habitat. The word comes from the Greek oikos which means house or habitat and logos: reason, study or speech. He agreed with Darwin's ideas and helped to spread them. -
historian of modern science and medicine. His research and teaching focus on the sciences of mind and brain, evolutionary theory, and the experimental ideal in the United States and Great Britain.
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From the beginning, he was heavily influenced by the Danish ecologist Eugenio Warming. He imposed and defended the term ecosystem in 1935, and ecotope in 1939. He was one of the founders of the British Ecological Society, and editor of the Journal of Ecology, for twenty years. -
Eugene Odum refers to mechanisms through which ecosystems preserve and regulate themselves. He called this process homeostasis
