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Did China nourish intellectuals? There is a famous Dutch 17th century painting of scientists cutting into corpses to find out how the human body works. This nev
by MomoXenosaga 5y ago
Did China nourish intellectuals? There is a famous Dutch 17th century painting of scientists cutting into corpses to find out how the human body works. This never happened outside Europe until centuries later for various religious and moral reasons.
Curiosity, ambition and lack of scruples to experiment.
- karpierz 5y ago> This never happened outside Europe until centuries later for various religious and moral reasons. Can you point to the research you've read that indicates that this never happened outside of Europe, because of religious/moral reason? Anatomical dissection happened in a variety of places, including a criminal in 200-300 BCE China. https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.24503 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002...
- pvaldes 5y ago> scientists cutting into corpses to find out how the human body works. This never happened outside Europe until centuries later Egypt had been cutting corpses and doing sophisticated surgery 2000 years before that