Observation of 18th Century

 

Observation of 18^th Century

Aristotle was one of these first biologists and pursued finding the core of human intelligence, which he concluded to be the heart. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who should human anatomy and marine science.

01              The work of many naturalist explorers like Humboldt (1769 – 1859), Bonpland (1773 - 1858), greatly increased European appreation of the enormous extent of the diversity and geographical variation of plants, animal, and fungi. During the eighteen century great labors were dedicated to the collection, preservation, and cataloging of flora and fauna.

02              The need to organize the resultant wealth of information motivated the work of Carl Linnaeus (1707 -1778), who laid the foundations for the modern system of binomial nomenclature.

03              The chemical discoveries of Lavoisier (1747 - 1794), were instrumental in the development of physiology and biophysics in the following century.

04              Edward Jenner (1749 -1823), was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. The terms “vaccine” and “vaccination” are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox Jenner is often called “the father of immunology”, and his work is said to have “saved more lives than the work of any other human”

05              Hanaoka Seishu (17660 - 1835), was a Japanese surgeon. Hanaoka is said to have been the first to perform surgery using general anesthesia.