Benjamin Franklin also supported Harvey’s concept of circulation, as did the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier. Harvey’s opponents included the French thinkers René Descartes and Jean Riolan the ...

And like those ideas, its development was largely a solitary effort, conceived, begun, and completed by a single individual, the English physician William Harvey. He published his discovery in ...

The circulation of blood from the heart through arteries and back through veins may seem trivial and obvious now, but William Harvey’s discovery during the 17th century was remarkable because ...

William Harvey (1578-1657) performed the greatest-ever medical experiments, giving birth to the science of physiology, when he discovered the circulation of blood, completely revising the ...

AMY E. WHITMORE DEAD; She Was a Descendant of William Harvey, the Celebrated Discoverer of the Circulation of the Blood. Share full article. April 12, 1895.

THE discovery of the circulation of the blood by William Harvey is commonly regarded among scientific discoveries as eminent if not unique; and this in the judgment not of Englishmen only. My ...

Ceaseless Motion: William Harvey’s experiments in circulation, the Royal College of Physicians, London, to 26 July. AFFECTION and delight aren’t qualities you would immediately associate with ...

This illustration from William Harvey's 1628 De Motu Cordis shows how valves in the veins of a human arm allow the blood to flow towards the heart, but not away from it. 1657: The blood stops ...

Meanwhile, the failing Fontan circulation has become a common indication for cardiac transplantation. Having challenged the fundamentals of Harvey's circulation for 35 years, our current concerns ...