- The first telescope was invested in
this time(Alchin).
science and medicine in Elizabethan England
- In that time believed Everything in the world is composed of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water (Elizabethan science)
- They believed human body is composed of 4 elements : black bile, phlegm, yellow bile, blood ( shakespeare's humors)
- They thought some emotions
came from organs. for example,
they thought anger come from
spleen and that courage came from
your stomach.(shakespeare's humors)
- For the doctors to get their training, they would go to the College of Physicians. This college was given the right to do dissections on human corpses. The bodies that were used were bodies of executed convicts and criminals.(Patterson)
- In the Elizabethan Age, what we now call science was known as natural philosophy. (Taylor)
Doctors training
- Elizabethan England’s most famous naturalist was Edward Wotton (1492-1555), who collected data on plants and animals.(Shakespearean and Elizabethan Medicine and Doctors)
- Elizabethan Medicine was extremely basic and terrible illnesses such as the Bubonic Plague (Black Death ) were killing nearly one third of the population.(Patterson)
Galileo
- Astronomers had generally accepted the Ptolemaic system. Some students before suggested that the earth and planets might rotate about a central sun, but Copernican first gave reasons for such a belief.(Alchin)
- He was famous for many of his inventions and findings. His achievements include improvements to the telescope, and his astronomic observations. He is often called the “Father of Astronomical Observations”, “The Father of Physics”, and “The Father of Science” (Elizabethan Era pictures)