William Harvey 1578-1657.

William Harvey (1578-1657)

Renowned physician and scientist William Harvey [4] is best known for his accurate description of how blood circulates through the body. While his published work on the circulation of blood is considered the most important of his academic life, Harvey also made significant contributions to embryology [5] with the publication of his book Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium [6] in 1651. In th...

William Harvey (1578-1657): discoverer of blood circulation.

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Two doctors Harvey: William (1578-1657); Samuel Clark (1886-1953).

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...

William Harvey (1578-1657): discoverer of the circulation.

A bibliography of the writings of Dr William Harvey 1578–1657

discrete areas of knowledge were in the sixteenth and seventeenth century closely related and interacting. Whether dealing with the anatomist Harvey, the physician Dalechamps, the astronomer Galileo, or the philosopher Zabarella, Schmitt was always aware of the wider context, and his insights into one speciality often illuminated another. As Charles Webster points out in his introduction, these...