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  2. William Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent on 1 April 1578. His father was a merchant. Harvey was educated at King's College, Canterbury and then at Cambridge University. He then studied...

  3. Harvey published a book in 1628 called An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood. His high profile as physician to the king helped Harvey’s work to be widely shared.

  4. William Harvey studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and at a famous medical school in Padua, Italy, during the Renaissance.

  5. The life of Harvey has been often written - in the General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, folio, Lond., 1738; by Dr. Lawrence, in choice Latin, prefixed to the College edition of Harvey's works; by Aiken "Biographical Memoirs," &c.; and, lastly and most ably, by Dr. Willis, prefixed to his translation into English of Harvey's works ...

  6. In 1628, aged 50, Harvey published his masterpiece – usually referred to as De Moto Cordis – the Motion of the Heart. Its full title in English is: Anatomical Studies on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals.

  7. William Harvey (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, Englanddied June 3, 1657, London) was an English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea.

  8. Published in 1628, Harvey’s small volume On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals—about 70 pages long—became a gigantic milestone.

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