History 30B, Spring 2000

Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 7 (2/8/00)

 

Topics 

What constitutes biology as a discipline?
Morphology
Physiology
Tangent:  the microscope
 

Names and terms 

morphology
anatomy
physiology
botany
zoology
dissection, vivisection
Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
comparative morphology
compound microscope
aberration (chromatic, spherical)

 
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