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?