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The English physician William Harvey was the first to explain how our pumping hearts circulate blood. Though circulation remained the primary focus of his medical research, Harvey also studied animal ...

"Originally published, in a slightly different format, as Circulation : William Harvey's revolutionary idea, in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 2012"--T.p. verso. Prologue. A new theory (1636) : ...

With the celebration of the anniversary of the death of William Harvey, the English physician who established "modern" physiology by his masterfully conceived experiments that led to the discovery of ...

When William Harvey's De motu cordis was published in 1628 the new belief in the circulation of the blood had long been crystallized in his mind, for he had lectured on this subject as early as 1616 ...

THE discovery of the circulation of the blood by William Harvey is commonly regarded among scientific discoveries as eminent if not unique; and this in the judgment not of Englishmen only. My purpose ...

THERE is probably no name in the roll of European physicians antecedent to our own time so familiarly known as that of the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Harvey was one of the founders of ...