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[T]he dull and unintellectual are indisposed to see what lies before their eyes.
—Dedication
William Harvey
William Harvey
 
1578–1657, English physician considered by many to have laid the foundation of modern medicine.… Harvey was first to demonstrate the function of the heart and the complete circulation of the blood, a feat especially remarkable because it was accomplished without the aid of a microscope.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  här´v from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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WORK
 
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 3.
 
WRITINGS ABOUT HARVEY
 
“Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood”
Sections by Rev. William Hunt with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
 
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