Like Newton’s laws of motion and Darwin’s theory of evolution, the scientific appreciation of the blood’s circulation benefited heavily from the contributions of a single individual, the English ...

While Molière and Boileau supported Harvey’s views, Descartes—who initially accepted blood circulation—rejected the idea that the heart pumped the blood. Despite initial resistance, Harvey ...

Cardiologist Dhun Sethna describes how a 17th-century physician radically reworked our understanding of blood circulation and medicine. ... the English physician William Harvey.

The circulation of blood from the heart through arteries and back through veins may seem trivial and obvious now, but William Harvey’s discovery during the 17th century was remarkable because ...

William Harvey (1578-1657) performed the greatest-ever medical experiments, giving birth to the science of physiology, when he discovered the circulation of blood, completely revising the ...

This illustration from William Harvey's 1628 De Motu Cordis shows how valves in the veins of a human arm allow the blood to flow towards the heart, but not away from it. 1657: The blood stops ...

William Harvey: A Life in Circulation Thomas Wright. Oxford Univ, $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-993169-9 ...

Helen Brown salutes the ‘crack-brained’ doctor who dissected our most precious organ – the heart, reviewing Circulation by Thomas Wright. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

William Harvey's research on the veins of bandaged arms led to his discovery of the correlation between the heart and the circulation of blood through the body. 1578-1657 A.D. William Harvey ...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the subject of Wright's book, was responsible for helping to bring about a world in which these so-called cures would be exposed as quackery.