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William Harvey was an English physician who lived from 1578 to 1657 and is famous for discovering how blood circulates through the body, fundamentally changing medical understanding. His work laid the foundation for modern physiology and proved that the heart pumps blood in a continuous cycle rather than following the flawed theories that had been accepted for centuries.
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- 1567
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- Visitations of the North, or, Some early heraldic visitations of, and collections of pedigrees relating to, the North of England
- The visitation of Suffolk, 1561
- Harvard Classics Volume 38 : Scientific Papers
- Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563
- The visitations of the county of Oxford taken in the years 1566
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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart (though earlier writers, such as Realdo Colombo, Michael Servetus, and Jacques Dubois, had provided precursors to some of his theories).
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1578 births1657 deaths17th-century anatomists17th-century English medical doctors17th-century English scientists17th-century writers in LatinAlumni of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeAlumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's HospitalCommons link from WikidataEnglish anatomistsEnglish AnglicansEnglish biologists