William Harvey
English physician who first accurately described the systemic circulation and the role of the heart in pumping blood; author of De Motu Cordis (1628) and physician to King Charles I.
Books
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1. The Anatomical Exercises
A systematic, experimentally grounded argument that the heart functions as a pump driving a continuous circulation of blood through pulmonary and systemic routes; using vivisection, ligature tests, anatomical observation and simple measurements, the work identifies the role of venous valves, quantifies cardiac motion and output, and overturns the prevailing Galenic notion that blood is produced in the liver and consumed by tissues, establishing a new empirical method for studying physiology.
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