is about materials and machines. Technology is about "applied science". So when we examine the human body, we must look at the 'nuts and bolts' of how the body works.
ust as humans have learned how to use wood, horn, shell and stone . . .
od has used many different materials to
  build our bodies. But first . . . it may be
  helpful to think about the different
concepts which people have come up
with to describe the body.
In the time of Newton and Galileo, people thought of the
body in terms of levers and pulleys, cords and bellows.
In 1702 newton thought the body could be described in
              mathematical terms, but it was soon found that
                     this method was inadequate too.
                     The professor of Anatomy in Rome,
Giorgio Baglivi compared the body to a machine. He saw a match between jaws and cutters, veins and hydraulics, bellows and lungs, levers and muscles, etc.
Over the years, ideas have changed. New disciplines
      have altered the concepts. Genetics, and molecular
                biology, bioengineering and so on, have all
                             brought their views, yet the human body
                             always defies a complete description because
                            it is more like a piece of alien technology than anything a human would build.
Despite all the study, and many amazing discoveries, the human body is still yielding enormous amounts of new information
As the information pours in, the concepts change.
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