Um olhar sobre o estudo dos seres vivos na revolução científica dos séculos XVI e XVII: uma contribuição para o estudo da construção do pensamento biológico

Abstract

The article looks for to argue some historic aspects (the mercantilism revolution) and philosophical (the mechanicism and the empiricism) in the elaboration of basic problems in the study of the beings livings creature during the scientific revolutions of centuries XVI and XVII. Search, thus, show the changes that had after occurred in the vision of world constructed for the philosophy the Average Age, as well as the transformations of the methods elaborated for the understanding of this new vision. Search still to present uncurling of the research in some of the subjects of bigger concern enters studious of this period in regards to the study of the beings livings creature. Such subjects are: the study of the structures, functions, development and transmission of characters between parents and children