1)Why is Aristotle called the 'father of science'?
2) What name did Theophrastus earn for himself?
3)Why were more detailed observations possible during the Renaissance?
4) What did John Ray publish and when? 5) What happened to the original names of organisms after the Linnaean system was introduced?
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Аristotle was considered to be the father of modern science because he was the father of the scientific method. Aristotle was the first to conduct empirical studies, which is what modern science is based on.
2. Paracelsus was the byname of the German-Swiss physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. About 1516 he began using the name “para-Celsus” (meaning above or beyond Celsus).
3. Renaissance thinkers considered the Middle Ages to have been a period of cultural decline. They expanded and interpreted classical texts and philosophies, creating their own style of art, philosophy and scientific inquiry. Some major developments of the Renaissance include astronomy, humanist philosophy, the printing press, vernacular language in writing, painting and sculpture technique, world exploration and, in the late Renaissance, Shakespeare's works. The Renaissance encompassed the flowering of Latin languages, a change in artistic style, and gradual, widespread educational reform.
4. Ray himself published an account of his foreign travel in 1673, entitled Observations topographical, moral, and physiological, made on a Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France. Willughby undertook the former part, but, dying in 1672, left only an ornithology and ichthyology for Ray to edit; while Ray used the botanical collections for the groundwork of his Methodus plantarum nova (1682), and his great Historia generalis plantarum (3 vols., 1686, 1688, 1704). The plants gathered on his British tours had already been described in his Catalogus plantarum Angliae (1670), which formed the basis for later English floras.In the 1690s, he published three volumes on religion—the most popular being The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691), an essay describing evidence that all in nature and space is God's creation as in the Bible is affirmed.
5. Linnaeus established the practice of binomial nomenclature—that is, the denomination of each kind of plant by two words, the genus name and the specific name, as Rosa canina, the dog rose. Binomial nomenclature had been introduced much earlier by some of the herbalists, but it was not generally accepted; most botanists continued to use cumbersome formal descriptions, consisting of many words, to name a plant.