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William Harvey Research Paper

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Inhale. Exhale. Were the words coming out my father’s mouth as I finished a dreadful mile sprint. My heart pumped faster, as I felt blood rushing throughout my body. One beat at a time, my heart circulated blood through each chamber. It amazed me how a determined physician known as William Harvey discovered the process. After the discovery of the human heart, analyst grew curious to learn how a single muscular organ was able to pump blood thought the body. In the fourth century a Greek physician known as Aristotle described the beating heart as a three-chamber organ that was the center of the circulating blood .In the early 1400’s an Italian anatomist know as Leonardo Da Vinci believed the heart circulated through two chambers. Yet, it was not until the English physician known as William Harvey who confirmed with reason and …show more content…

Leonardo da Vinci was an anatomist from Italy while Aristotle was a physician from Greece. All their intriguing ideas led Harvey to conclude with a well-organized order in which the blood traveled. Aristotle believed the blood traveled through three chambers. He mainly dissected amphibians such as frogs, not realizing that they have different hearts than humans. Leonardo Da Vinci believed the heart had two chambers. Leonardo mainly focused on fishes, which he was correct since fishes are known to have two chambers today but little did he know their hearts were different from humans. These two important figures studied the heart in different time periods. Aristotle studied the heart in the 4th century while Leonardo studied it in the 1400’s.With many experiments and dissections, Harvey was able to prove that the heart consisted of four chambers. He expressed that the process began with the blood traveling through the Vena Cava. The blood then entered the Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Pulmonary Artery Pulmonary Vein, Left Atrium, Left Ventricle and finally

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