William Harvey
Subtitle: a life in circulation
By: Thomas Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199931699
Subjects: Physicians; Circulation; Science; Anatomists; Physiologists; Blood; Intellectual life; Medicine; Human anatomy; Biography; History
Description: "In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. ... In the first biographical study of Harvey in 50 years, Thomas Wright charts the meteoric rise of a yeoman's son to the elevated position of Kind Charles I's physician, taking the reader from farmlands of Kent to England's royal palaces, and paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary mind formed at a fertile time in England's intellectual history"--Dust jacket.
Notes: "Originally published, in a slightly different format, as Circulation : William Harvey's revolutionary idea, in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 2012"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.