Written by William Harvey
An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart & Blood in Animals
by William HarveyHarvey’s work, by which his name has been made immortal, strikingly illustrates this. He was the first to show the nature of the movements of the heart, and how the blood moved in the body. He did so by putting on one side authority, and directly appealing to observation and experiment. The completeness of the success with which this independent li..