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  4. //  Life Sciences
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  6. #e <t>medical<d>1500<c>Switzerland<n>first "successful" Caesarian delivery<info>the first recorded in which both mother and child survived
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  9. //  16th century
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  11. #p <nat>English<o>physician<n>William Harvey<b>1578<d>1657
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  13. #e <t>nature<n>Dodo birds first seen by Portuguese<c>Mauritius<d>1507
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  16. //  17th century
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  18. #p <nat>Dutch<o>biologist<n>Anton van Leeuwenhoek<b>1632<d>1723<info>pioneer in microscopy; discoverer of microbial life
  19. #p <nat>Dutch<o>physician<n>Gabriel Fahrenheit<b>1686 May 14<d>1736
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  21. #e <t>theory<d>1628<n>circulation of blood<c>England<au>William Harvey
  22. #e <t>extinct<n>Dodo<c>Mauritius<d>1681
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  25. //  18th century
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  27. #p <nat>Swedish<o>botanist<n>Carolus Linnaeus<b>1707 May 23<d>1778
  28. #p <nat>Italian<o>biologist<n>Luigi Galvani<b>1737<d>1798
  29. #p <nat>English<o>physician<n>Edward Jenner<b>1749<d>1823
  30. #p <nat>American<o>naturalist<n>John James Audubon<b>1785 Apr 26<d>1851<info>ornithologist
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  32. #e <t>inv<d>1735<au>Linnaeus<c>Sweden<n>system of classifying plants
  33. #e <t>disc<d>1786<n>galvanism<aka>animal electricity<au>Luigi Galvani<info>experimented with frogs' spinal cords and dissimilar metals
  34. #e <t>inv<d>1796<au>Edward Jenner<n>smallpox vaccine
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  37. //  19th century
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  39. #p <nat>English<o>naturalist<n>Charles Darwin<b>1809 Feb 12<d>1882
  40. #p <nat>Austrian<o>botanist<n>Gregor Mendel<b>1822 Jul 22<d>1884
  41. #p <nat>French<o>/*micro*/biologist<o>chemist<n>Louis Pasteur<b>1822 Dec 27<d>1895
  42. #p <nat>English<o>surgeon<n>Joseph Lister<b>1827 Apr 5<d>1912
  43. #p <nat>Austrian<o>psychologist<n>Sigmund Freud<b>1856 May 6<d>1939
  44. #p <nat>Scottish<o>biologist<n>Alexander Fleming<b>1881 Aug 6<d>1955
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  46. #e <t>extinction<n>great auk<d>1850
  47. #e <t>pub<n>Darwin<tit>On the Origin of Species<d>1859
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  50. //  20th century
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