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How did the findings of William Harvey challenge the Catholic Church's views about the human body?
Harvey’s work with the human body discounted the idea that saints could work miracles of healing.
Harvey’s work was based only on traditions and assumptions gained from reading Muslim scholars.
Harvey drew pictures of the human body that were offensive to most members of the Catholic Church.
Harvey described the way the human body works in a way that made it seem less mysterious.
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"Harvey described the way the human body works in a way that made it seem less mysterious."
Explanation: Harvey’s experiments and observations (notably the circulation of the blood and the heart as a pump) offered natural, mechanical explanations for bodily functions. That undermined the Church’s view of the body as governed primarily by divine or mysterious forces and reduced reliance on theological or miraculous explanations for health and disease.
Explanation: Harvey’s experiments and observations (notably the circulation of the blood and the heart as a pump) offered natural, mechanical explanations for bodily functions. That undermined the Church’s view of the body as governed primarily by divine or mysterious forces and reduced reliance on theological or miraculous explanations for health and disease.
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