Carolus Linnaeus's Influence On The Field Of Biology

The town of Salem is hanging people left and right. People are blaming the innocent, and the people have to trust the word of a bunch of teenage girls to save the town from witchcraft. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Miller uses Abigail’s struggle for power to show that in times of great fear people look to the people with the answers even if they aren’t right. In Abigail’s struggle for power she wants to do what she wants and not get punished for it. Abigail wants to get rid of people she doesn’t like or those that she sees as a threat to her plan for power. Abigail also wants to be more powerful than the other girls. With Abigail gaining power she is going to be testing the limits of how many people she can wrongly accuse of witchcraft

As the book progresses, we are introduced to the three most influential people on western biological thought that emerged from ancient Greece, and the classical world. First came Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.) who was revered as the “moral philosopher” rather than a “natural philosopher,” as his ideas contributed towards two jurisdictions of thought – philosophy and natural science. Although he left little proof of his written accounts, his ideology has made it through centuries of history in the form of “Socratic dialogues” by his pupil, Plato (429 – 347 B.C.). Plato contributed to the transcription, of the dialogues between himself and Socrates and the members of Athenian

In the Linnaean classification system, all organisms are placed in a ranked hierarchy.   His system was one of small groups building into larger ones. The current groupings of organisms from largest to smallest are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species

Many of the disease and condition names first used by Galen have been retained. This accounts for the fact that the second most common source of medical root words is the Greek Language. Other older roots have their Arabic. This is due to the fact that Arabic scholars were important teachers of medicine through the middle ages. Some modern roots are taken from the English language. This reflects the pre-eminence of the English language in medicine and biomedical sciences for the past half century. The Latin language adds suffixes to nouns to denote different syntax constructions. Since suffixes were commonly used by Italian scientists, their use in medical settings were also retained. Some prefixes are adaptations of Latin words. In medical descriptions and terminology, they were attached to root words rather than being separate from the word that they were modifying. Prefixes are often used to indicate locations on the body or directions relative to planes or structures in the body. Some words in modern medical terminology have been borrowed from biology. Many of these are names of genus and species of pathogens. The use of Latin for these names dates to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) who founded the modern system of taxonomy. Finally, from approximately 1650 through to 1850 – while the system of medical terminology currently in use was being developed-Latin was the language of educated persons. This is another reason for the inclusion of so many linguistic elements

In the mid-nineteenth century, people focused more on the question from the New Testament of whether all humans are from “one blood” (Fredrickson 2015: 66). Others believed that people originate from three to five different species of which were all created separately and contain different aptitudes. In England, scientific racism did not become popular until the mid-nineteenth century, due to the strong evangelical Christian beliefs that all human beings are decedents of Adam and Eve (66). The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, attempted to classify humans into categories in 1735. He believed that different types of humans could be classified as monstrous and mythical. Among these types included Africans, Europeans, Asians, and Native Americans. He described black people as “crafty, indolent, negligent… Governed by caprice” and Europeans as “acute, inventive…Governed by laws” (56). Voltaire was mainly hostile towards Christianity. Because of this, he disliked the Jewish people for being connected to the New Testament. He claimed that each human race was a separate species that developed at different rates. The Jews all contained a set of undesirable traits that were permanent (62).

As the presidential race rages on, Donald Trump has lashed out against a fellow republican candidate who was seemingly slated early on as a potential vice president running mate. Instead, Trump has turned the table on Cruz by running a 30-second commercial ad portraying candidate Ted Cruz campaign of wrongful practices in his candidacy sweetheart funding, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and falsely accused the Cruz campaign of starting rumors of Ben Carson suspending his bid for the White House.

Near the beginning of the 1900’s, Christianity was challenged by the authority of science. One of the main leaders of this movement, known as the Enlightening or Scientific revolution, was an intellectual by the name of Charles Darwin. When his book Origin of Species challenged the idea of creationism with natural order and taxonomy (Pereboom, 1997). The answers to the questions that the church had deemed

When am I going to catch a break? Vince thought about his life as he sat waiting for the bus. His grass stained pants and green hands had showed the signs of a hard day’s work. He thought about what life would be like to have parents that he could turn to, when he needed them. His dad was in prison all of his life, and his mother has been on drugs ever since he could remember. “How the hell am I going to get my car out of impound?” Vince said to himself. He had been pulled over for not paying his insurance, and now faced the dilemma of getting his car out, or paying rent. He sat there with his elbows on his knees, and stared at the cars going by.

Charles Darwin is one the most influential scientists in our history. Without his speculation and theories on evolution, the way we look at evolution today may have been very misguided. Darwin created new ideas and theories that dramatically changed the way we see science today. His impact on the scientific community was both exciting yet controversial.

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78), a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, is known for his taxonomic system, which laid the foundations of the modern biological categorization (Brace, 2005). His ambition was to make order the chaos of biological life based on distinctiveness and established categories of generic and specific names. It divided humans into six categories; four based on geographic location, and Homo ferus (wild man) and homo monstrosus (monster man) (Fish, 2011). He further tried to make scientific sense of life by assigning traits to each of these categories. Racial stereotyping has derived from this concept of Linnaeus’ taxonomy, with static conceptions of a particular race that does not allow for individual variation and intergradations (Fish, 2011). Australia was colonized at a time

Gregor Johann Mendel was a researcher, Augustinian minister and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was naturally introduced to a German-talking family in Silesian part of the Austrian Empire and increased after death acknowledgment as the author of the cutting edge study of hereditary qualities. In spite of the fact that ranchers had known for quite a long time that the crossbreeding of creatures and plants could support certain attractive characteristics, Mendel's pea plant tests led in the vicinity of 1856 and 1863 set up a large portion of the tenets of heredity, now alluded to as the laws of Mendelian legacy. Mendel worked with seven qualities of pea plants: plant tallness, pod shape and shading, seed shape

Aristotle describes substance as being the most important when talking about Genera. These Genera include Substance, Quantity, Quality, Relative, Where, When, Being in a position, Having, Acting on, and Being Affected. Of these, he says they are all equal, but Substance connects all of them together. With out substance, we cannot know about the other things listed for Genera. When we talk about something, we can list its characteristics, which is part of Quality. We can also talk about how many of the substance there are, and that is part of Quantity. But in order for us to do that, we must know what the substance is in order to be able to describe it.

Starting over 500 years ago with Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton paving the way for the possibility of new scientific exploration into studies such as “stratigraphy, the study of the rock and soil layers of the earth” by Robert Hooke and Carolus Linnaeus’ study of taxonomy, “the system of naming and classifying organisms” based on morphological similarities and differences, humanity would begin to uncrack the code of where life came from in a nonbiblical sense. (Fuentes, 26) Further studies by George-Louis Leclerc – Comte du Buffon, Erasmus Darwin (Charles’ grandfather), Georges Cuvier, James Hutton and Charles Lyell as well as Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet – Chevalier de Lamarck’s studies in which he “correctly identified the environment as a challenge to organisms and adaptation as the result of changing to meet environmental challenges” helped prompt the formulation of the current understanding of evolution by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace each in their own special way.

Charles Dickens is a famous British author known for writing many classics. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. Born to John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow, Charles was the second child of eight. He grew up poor, eventually dropping out of school to bring in more money for his family. Dickens worked as an office boy, which helped to start his writing career. In 1836, he finally published his first book, Sketches by Boz. Throughout the rest of his life, Dickens would end up publishing about 25 books. Some of his work includes Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. Charles

"Nothing is more remarkable than Aristotle 's efforts to exhibit the relationships of living things as a scala naturae.” Charles Singer, a modern British historian, and zoologist quotes referring to Aristotle’s “History of Animals” which classified organisms in relation to a hierarchical "ladder of life" (scala naturae).