1. Kill or Cure: Lecture 2 Humoral Body Dr Claudia Stein

2. Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528

3. Ulrich von Hutten, 1488-1523

5. Galen of Pergamon, AD 129– c. 200/ c. 216)

7. On the heavens On sleep and sleeplessness On animals On the soul Virtues and vices Metereology Metaphysics On Longlivity and Shortness of Life Poetics In Generation and Corruption And so on…….. Aristotle, 384 BC – 322 BC

8. The micro-macrocosm

10. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), 1543

14. René Descartes (1596 – 1650) Cogito, ergo, sum,: I think, therefore I am Mechanical philosophy: a general explanation of the world that treated its phenomenon as due to nothing but pieces of inert matter interacting with another by virtue of their shapes, sizes, and motions Cartesianism: a strain of philosophy owing its central tenets to René Descartes.

15. Passions of the Soul, 1649 Description of the Human Body, 1647

16. William Harvey, 1578-1657 De Motu Cordis – On the Motion of the Heart, 1628

17. What’s new by the end of the 17 th century? 1. The use of mathematics and measurements to give precise determinations of how the world and its parts work. 2. The use of observation, experience, and where necessary artificially constructed experiments, to gain understanding of nature.