Summary Of On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals By William Harvey

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a book written by William Harvey in 1628. The work was written in England. William Harvey studying the movement of the blood and the heart through observation on an animals. He compares the heart of an animal to the sun of their microcosm. Harvey outlines that the arteries and the veins contain the same blood in animals, and not blood from two separate sources as assumed by Galen. The document was written in 1628. It was written to Prince Charles, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Harvey mentions Galen (Greek physician) and mentions that the same blood going into the heart, arteries and veins. At that time two separate systems were assumed to be involved in blood circulation. Natural