The Theory of the Heartbeat - A Book That Influenced the Course of World History

Author: (British) Harvey Lee
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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood" was published by the great British physiologist and embryologist William Harvey in 1628. The publication of this book shocked the medical and physiological communities at the time. Its views fundamentally overturned the classic theories about the movement of the heart and blood that had dominated people's thinking for thousands of years, proposing that blood circulates in a loop and that the rhythmic, continuous beating of the heart is the driving force behind the circulation of blood throughout the body.