Explain the significance of the hippocratic corpus

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Chapter Questions

Preface

1. Explain the scientific difference between theory (i.e. Scientific theory) and Hypothesis. Why has the author "declined to struggle over the distinction"?

Part I: The Beginnings

Chapter 1: Hippocrates

1. Explain the significance of Thale's Leap.

2. Explain the significance of the Hippocratic Corpus.

3. What are the ‘4 humors' and explain how Hippocrates thought they were related to disease.

4. How were the temples of Aesculapius used to treat illness and injury in ancient Greece?

Chapter 2: Plato

1. Find the definitions of monist, plurist, and atomist as they pertain to the scientists in this chapter. What is one example of each from the text?

2. What was the significance of Plato's Timaeus to science?

3. Describe Plato's theory on the origin of the universe (physical and corporeal).

Chapter 3: Aristotle

1. How did Aristotle's vision of the world differ from Plato's? Why was this vision important at the time?

2. Describe Aristotle's Scale of Nature. This eventually lead to the Great Chain of Being in the 1500s- describe this as well.

3. Explain why Aristotle can be called the 1st taxonomist, and explain how he classified life.

Chapter 6: Ptolemy

1. By Ptolemy's time, a completely erroneous model of the universe had been pieced together. Describe a few of these erroneous elements.

2. What did Ptolemy's Almagest contribute to the knowledge of the day? Why was this important?

3. During this time, there were "no innovations, no paradigm shifts". Define paradigm (as in a scientific paradigm) and explain what the author means by this statement.

4. In particular, why did European scholars (up to the 1500s) fail to dispute Ptolemy?

5. For a time, the Almagest was ‘lost' to scholars. Why and how was it resurrected?

6. Why is Chapter 6 of the text subtitled "The most influential science book in history"?

Chapter 7: Copernicus

1. What assumptions did Copernicus lay out in his Commentariolus?

2. Copernicus wasn't the first to propose his theories- why did his work make such an impact?

3. What were the major controversies regarding his On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?

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