William Harvey And The Mechanics Of The Heart

William Harvey is the riveting story of a seventeenth-century man of medicine and the scientific revolution he sparked with his amazing discoveries about blood circulation within the body. Jole Shackelford traces Harvey's life from his early days in Folkstone, England, to his study of medicine in Padua through his rise to court physician to King James I and King Charles I, where he had the opportunity to conduct his research in human biology and physiology. Harvey's lecture notes show that he believed in the role of the heart in circulation of blood through a closed system as early as 1615. Yet he waited 13 years, until 1628, to publish his findings, when he felt more secure at introducing a concept counter to beliefs that had been held for hundreds of years. A revealing look at the changing social, religious, and political beliefs of the time, William Harvey documents how one man's originality helped introduce a new way of conducting scientific experiments that we still use today.

Harvey is renowned as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood & the function of the heart. He established a new approach to reaching scientific conclusions based on experiments as proof -- the approach commonly practiced today. Yet during his lifetime, Harvey's peers, resistant to change & new ideas, refuted his work. This bio. chronicles Harvey's accomplishments & shows a man who had faith in observation & experiment. Details how political, religious, & cultural events shaped Harvey's life; his professional rise to become personal physician to kings resulted in his dismissal & a huge fine when Parliament overthrew the Crown. Reveals how this diligent scientist became a pioneer of modern medicine. Juvenile audiences. Illustrated.

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals William Harvey - William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on dissections and vivisections, for the circulation of the blood. It also overturned the longstanding theories of the heart's movement and function.

♥♥ On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey ♥♥ Published in 1628 in the city of Frankfurt, Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus contains the matured account of the circulation of the blood. ♥♥ On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey ♥♥ Opening with a dedication to King Charles I, the quarto has 17 chapters which give a perfectly clear and connected account of the action of the heart and the consequent movement of the blood around the body in a circuit. ♥♥ On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey ♥♥ William Harvey (1578-1657) was a rebel in medical science: Contrary to contemporary practice, he began his epoch-making investigation into the action of the heart and the blood's circulation by minutely observing their action in live animals and by a lengthy series of dissections, rather than by mere reliance on the anatomical lessons of ancient medicine and philosophy. ♥♥ On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey ♥♥ "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals", including explanations of heart valves and arterial pulse, stands as a triumph of true scientific inquiry, and is still regarded as one of the greatest discoveries in physiology.

In 1628, William Harvey announced to the world his discovery of the circulation of the blood. Over 100 years before the Industrial revolution, man began to be understood using mechanical metaphors and Harvey's discoveries were integral to this. Bur Harvery himself descended from the Aristotelian tradition of anatomy. How did this great revolution come about?

Classic of science reports how Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood came into being. Reproduces the English translation made during Harvey's lifetime.

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