CHY 4U1 – Image Analysis
The Scientific Revolution – William Harvey
Discussing the Illustration:
1) Copernicus, Galileo and Newton all used careful observation and measurement to
discover the truth about material objects. Meanwhile, William Harvey was using a similar
approach to study one particular part of nature. Who was William Harvey and what part
of nature did he study?
2) The drawing above has to do with Harvey’s experiments to learn more about one aspect
of how the body works. Can you explain what aspect of human functioning this was?
3) Given Newton’s mechanical universe, some people said humans were also like machines.
But his idea raised a key question: If we are just machines, what exactly makes us human?
And what about the soul? Why do you think Enlightenment Thinkers felt a need to find
the soul of a specific part of the human body? Do you think Christians in earlier ages had
felt as strong a need to do this? Why or why not?