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William Harvey and the Mechanics of the Heart.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Portraits in Science SeriesPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198028222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: William Harvey and the Mechanics of the HeartDDC classification:
  • 612.1/092 B
LOC classification:
  • QP26.H3 .S533 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Young Physician in Shakespeare's England -- Sidebar: Renaissance Medicine -- Chapter 2: The Circulation of the Blood -- Sidebar: The Pulmonary Transit -- Chapter 3: Royal Physician and Scholar -- Chapter 4: The Reception of Harvey's Ideas -- Sidebar: Galen's Arterial Tube Experiment -- Chapter 5: Harvey's Last Years and His Legacy -- Sidebar: Harvey's Discovery and the Abandonment of Ancient Medical Theory -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: William Harvey is the riveting story of a seventeenth-century man of medicine and the scientific revolution he sparked with his amazing discoveries about blood circulation within the body. A revealing look at the changing social, religious, and political beliefs of the time, William Harvey documents how one man's originality helped introduce a new way of conducting scientific experiments that we still use today.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Young Physician in Shakespeare's England -- Sidebar: Renaissance Medicine -- Chapter 2: The Circulation of the Blood -- Sidebar: The Pulmonary Transit -- Chapter 3: Royal Physician and Scholar -- Chapter 4: The Reception of Harvey's Ideas -- Sidebar: Galen's Arterial Tube Experiment -- Chapter 5: Harvey's Last Years and His Legacy -- Sidebar: Harvey's Discovery and the Abandonment of Ancient Medical Theory -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

William Harvey is the riveting story of a seventeenth-century man of medicine and the scientific revolution he sparked with his amazing discoveries about blood circulation within the body. A revealing look at the changing social, religious, and political beliefs of the time, William Harvey documents how one man's originality helped introduce a new way of conducting scientific experiments that we still use today.

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