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Vesalius’ attitude towards Galen is best characterized as

Mixed, because although Galen never carried out human dissections, he did provide a model for the order in which the parts of the human body should be discussed

For Vesalius, the study of Galen’s writings

Was a valuable example of Renaissance humanism

In his book, On the fabric of the human body (1543), Vesalius proposed that

The roles of the lector, demonstrator, and dissector in the anatomy lesson should be combined in the person of the professor of anatomy

In his books, On the fabric of the human body and its Epitome or summary, printed in the same year, Vesalius

Hoped to gain the patronage (support) of powerful political figures

According to Vesalius’ view of the history of medicine,

Physicians in the Islamic world contributed nothing valuable to medical tradition because they only borrowed from Galen

The numerous Sphere editions, modeled after Sacrobosco’s Sphere, were mostly intended for:

A university market

Over time, the Sphere tradition developed, eventually

including a realist approach to astronomical models

The armillary sphere was an astronomical instrument described by Ptolemy. It was:

all of the above

One interpretation of Ptolemy’s astronomical writings suggests that his models (eccentric, epicycle-on-deferent) were useful for predicting planetary motions, but were not meant to be representations of physical reality. This view of astronomical models would be best characterized as … 

instrumentalist

instrumentalism refers to the idea that 

Scientific models are instruments or tools (for predicting Jupiter’s movement through the zodiac, to give one example)

in the autobiographical section of his dedication to Pope Paul III, Copernicus complains about the state of astronomy from a

realist point of view

a homocentric planetary model is one in which all the circles

share the same center

copernicus’ arguments in favor of the heliocentric model included

explaining that we see the celestial phenomena we do because the earth and planets are moving around the sun 

Which of the following was not one of the phenomena Copernicus used to argue for the heliocentric model’s explanatory power?

mars always has a reddish appearance

peurbach’s lectures on astronomy at the university of vienna in the mid-1400s were

all of the above

The purpose of Osiander’s preface to Copernicus’ On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres was to present the book’s models for planetary motion as

purely instrumental, making no realist claims about the cosmos

Copernicus’ likely audiences for On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres included

renaissance humanists like Philip Melanchthon

The Wittenberg interpretation of Copernicus’ heliocentric models gained ground because of

all of the above

According to Osiander’s unsigned preface to Copernicus’ On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres, the job of an astronomer includes all of the following tasks except:

making claims about cosmology

The title page of Copernicus’ On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres includes this sentence in Greek: “let no one untrained in geometry enter here.” Later in the book, Copernicus claims that heliocentrism is not a novel model of the cosmos, but is in fact a view dating back to the ancient Greeks. The title page quote, which assumes an audience literate in Greek, and Copernicus’ appeal to readers based on the authority of ancient Greek sources, provide evidence that Copernicus was engaged in the tradition of:

renaissance humanism