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 ...

“You have to leave your home. We’re taking you to work.” Rifle-carrying soldiers banged on William Harvey’s (then Wilheim Herskovits) door, giving the family five minutes to pack.

The growing skepticism of Galen’s work had a great influence on William Harvey, who was born in Folkestone, England, in 1578. The son of a farmer, Harvey showed great promise as a child, and his ...

Watch to recap the work of Vesalius and Paré before finding out about the work of William Harvey. Open Transcript William Harvey was an English doctor who was born in 1578.

A few individuals, such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey, made particularly important contributions to medical knowledge during the 16th and 17th centuries. An illustration ...

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 ...