William Harvey’s scientific contribution was just as momentous as Darwin's In the autumn of 1628 a slim and rather shoddily produced book was issued by an expatriate English publisher in Frankfurt.

In 1955, The Times Literary Supplement praised William Fryer Harvey as the equal of MR James and Walter De La Mare, at which point he started a decline into such obscurity that even the internet ...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the subject of Wright's book, was responsible for helping to bring about a world in which these so-called cures would be exposed as quackery. The discovery of the ...

Ae According to the view of Harvey's predecessors the veins may be compared to larger and smaller canals, fed by a spring which trickles into the chief canals, whence the water flows to the rest.

William Harvey is dead. Most scientists and physicians ... Galen warned his students not to be content with book knowledge, but 14 centuries of doctors relied instead on Galen's many anatomical ...

Small and beady eyed with dexterous hands and a rapid pace, Dr William Harvey was a man ... But Thomas Wright’s lively little book on Harvey’s revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man ...