Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why was Galens
work followed for
so long?
- Religion
- Nuns and Priests were the
main people who could read
and write
- Religious people agreed with Galens ideas
- Nuns and Priests controlled what people read
- People were afraid to try and
discover new medical knowledge
- Galens books were ancient
- People thought old books were always right
- Few people tried to disprove Galens work
- War
- Many libraries were ruined
- Most of Galens books were
saved so they were mostly what
students learnt from
- Dissected of humans was not allowed
- False theories were made by
dissecting animals
- No one could prove Galen
wrong by discovering new
ideas through human
dissection