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William Harvey

Type Figure Region England Time c. 1578–1657 Also known as Harvey

English Renaissance physician and anatomist, discoverer of the circulation of the blood.…

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  1. 1601–1602Padua · VenetoStudied at the University of Padua under Fabricius and other anatomists, receiving the most advanced anatomical and physiological training in Europe at the time, and took his medical doctorate in 1602. During his studies he systematically observed the structure of the heart and blood vessels, planting the empirical seeds of the theory of blood circulation.
  2. 1604–1610London · EnglandReturned to London in 1604 to open a practice, and was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1607. At St Bartholomew's Hospital and in his private anatomy room he continued animal and human dissection experiments, tracing the path of blood through the heart and gradually building the core arguments for the theory of blood circulation.

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