He collected data from phlebotomies (drawing blood from a vein) and palpitations of arterial ... Named in honor of one its most illustrious members, William Harvey House is the accommodation ...

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 ...

That switch happened 300 years ago, when a man named William Harvey discovered that blood circulates—and accidentally invented hard science. Harvey was born in 1578 to Thomas Harvey ...

Basic Books, June 2022 A foundational discovery that helped Harvey build the model of blood circulation was the new demonstration by his teacher Hieronymus Fabricius of anatomical valves in the veins.

The English physician William Harvey was the first to explain how our pumping hearts circulate blood. Though circulation remained the primary focus of his medical research, Harvey also studied ...

First William Harvey addressed his audience – professors ... the body in a unified circulatory system of arteries and veins. It was a bold challenge to the conventional view, enshrined in ...

by William Harvey 1628. The diagram demonstrates the existence of one-way valves in veins. Before the Renaissance, many people (influenced by Galen) believed that new blood was produced in the ...