“The 10 Most Important Discoveries About the Human Body” begins with a doctor who could only watch the heart and reason about it, and follows the centuries of work that let us finally look inside.
In this episode of Science After Dark, we cover ten discoveries in the order they happened – William Harvey showing that the blood travels in a loop, Malpighi seeing the capillaries under a microscope, Leeuwenhoek meeting the first microbes, Jenner inventing vaccination, Bichat naming the tissues, Beaumont studying a living stomach through a wound, Bernard describing the body’s inner balance, Cajal and Golgi mapping the nervous system, Landsteiner sorting the blood groups, and the double helix of DNA. Each one changed what it means to be a body.
Taken together they are the story of a machine we had to learn to see – and of the people patient enough to look.
A quiet science episode for late-night listening, passive learning, study, rest, or sleep.
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Chapters:
00:00 The 10 Most Important Discoveries About the Human
02:17 Let Me Guess the Math Does Not Support the
03:54 When You Get a Paper Cut on Your Finger
06:22 Jenner Takes the Critical Step. He
08:08 He Counted 21 of These Basic Repeating
09:50 He Also Extracted Stomach Fluid Through the
11:50 Under a Microscope, Brain and Nerve Cells
13:41 Nobody Knew Why. Until 1901, When an
16:15 Two Strands Wound Around Each Other
A calm science podcast to fall asleep to — quiet, slow, and easy on the mind. Perfect for winding down, relaxing, or drifting off to sleep.
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