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Hoppe, Brigitte [No German version] A. Introduction (CT) When looking at the origins of zoology (the 'science of life'), we must also consider medicine and the other natural sciences, whose development not only ran parallel to but inseparably hand in hand with zoology. Philosophers, physicians and natural scientists of pre-Modern times discussed questions of phýsis/ natura without distinguishing between different disciplines, all of which shared the same holistic view of nature anyway. Constituent concepts of magical thinking, such as vitalism and a…