The Anatomical Exercises by William Harvey
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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- 1628
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- English
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- Latin
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- An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
- De Motu Cordis
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
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