Origins of Biology as science

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  • Period: 600 BCE to 600 BCE

    VI century

    Zoroastrum, Budha and Lao-Tse founded major religions.
    Greek philosophers correlate basic principles of nature based on reason and observation.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 600 BCE

    VI: Elements

    Thales: water
    Anaximandros: apeiron
    Anaximenes: air
    Heraclitos: fire
  • Period: 500 BCE to 400 BCE

    V Century

    Alcmeon: unbalance in opposite features
    Hipócrates: Four body humors: blood, phlegm, two types of bile and four ages.
    Demicritos: atoms
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300 BCE

    IV Century

    Empedocles: four elements
    Aristoteles: ether ( fifth element)
  • Period: 130 to 200

    II-III Century

    Galenus: natural, vital, animal spirit
  • Period: 1450 to 1450

    Printing machine: Middle age to Renaissance

    Johann Guttenberg
  • Period: 1561 to

    Francis Bacon

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    James I

    Inductive reasoning
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    John Dalton

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    Gay-Lussac

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    Jöns Jakob Berzelius

    1807: Chemistry of life is different from that of inorganic compounds.
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    Lavoisier

    Mass Conservation Law
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    Faraday

    discover of Benzene
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    Friedrich Wöhler

    ammonium cyanate (inorganic) + hot---> urea (organic)
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    August Friedrich Kekulé

    4 valence assignment to C
    1861: Organic formulation system