History of biology in 19 and 20 century
Biology is a science which studies living organisms. The history of biology is very long and there are many scientists who study that. First man who used the word “biology” was Jean Babtiste Lamarck (1744 - 1849). The history of biology is the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. The first biologists were in an ancient Greece, for example Plato or Aristotle, they started to study nature and living organisms around them. During the Renaissance and early modern period, biological thought was revolutionized by a renewed interest in discovery of many new organisms. The most important scientists in this movement were Vesalius and Harvey, who used experimentation and careful observation in physiology, and naturalists such as Linnaeus and Buffon who began to classify the differences of life, as well as the development and behavior of organisms. The discovery of microscopes explore previously unknown world of microorganisms,......
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