William Harvey was a English physician who discovered the circulation of blood. He showed that blood flows from the heart in arteries and back to the heart in veins. He was born on April 1, 1578 in Folkestone, Kent. His father was a merchant. William was educated at King's College, Canterbury and then at Cambridge. Harvey decided to carry on his education by studying medicine at the University of Padua, in Italy. He was tutored by scientist and surgeon, Hieronymus Fabricius. He Graduated in 1602 and went back to England where he married Elizabeth Browne, in 1604. William was greatly intrigued by the puzzling mystery of how the one-way valves functioned, as nobody could discover the truth. In those days, many thought that food was converted into blood by the liver, then was consumed as fuel by the body.He dissected various animals, and then discovered that the blood did infact flow from the heart in a type of blood tube called the arteries and back to the in veins. He passed away on June 3, 1657. Mandeep Sidhu.
William Harvey
William Harvey
William Harvey
He wrote a book called An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in 1628, which described how blood circulates around the body, and it proved Galen wrong on many accounts.
Medicine (William Harvey discovered circulation of blood vessels, Edward Jenner with smallpox), Astronomy (Galileo, Copernicus), Human Anatomy (Vesalius)
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Marcello Malpighi
William Harvey was born in 1578 - 1657
William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578.
William Harvey has written: 'Ballads of battle'
William Humphrey Harvey was born in 1869.
William Humphrey Harvey died in 1935.
William Hope Harvey was born in 1851.
William Hope Harvey died in 1936.
William Harvey Murray was born in 1916.
William Alexander Harvey was born in 1874.
William Bruce Harvey was born in 1906.