Category: Biographies
The life of Harvey, like that of all his contemporaries, falls naturally into two great divisions. Hitherto it had been passed in peace and learned ease, but for the future much of it was to be spent in camps amongst the alarms of war. War indeed he had seen both in the Mantua...
Harvey's _liber aureus_ is certainly his "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus." [An Anatomical Treatise on the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Ani...
5. CHAPTER IXThe treatises on Development are so full of detail that it is impossible to give an exact notion of their contents in a popular work. They contain however certain passages of pe...
2. CHAPTER VIThe surrender of Oxford in 1645 marks the period of Harvey's severance from the Court and of his practical retirement from public life. He was now 68; a martyr to gout, childles...
12. CHAPTER IX.Circulation of the blood, account of, 199-202; anatomical proof of, 206, 219; butcher's proof of, 210; comparative anatomy of, 222; deduced from syncope, 210, 218; disquisition...
1. CHAPTER VThe life of Harvey, like that of all his contemporaries, falls naturally into two great divisions. Hitherto it had been passed in peace and learned ease, but for the future much...
3. CHAPTER VIIHarvey died at Roehampton in the house of his brother Eliab on the 3rd of June, 1657. Aubrey says that on the morning of his death, about ten o'clock, he went to speak and found...
7. CHAPTER II.Information given by Prof. Carlo Ferraris, the Rector magnificus, and by Dr. Gerardi, the Librarian of the University of Padua, at the request of Prof. Villari and Prof. George...
6. CHAPTER I."The Genealogy of the Family of Harvey, compiled from Original Sources," by W. J. Harvey, Esq., F.S.A., Scotland, in the "Misc. Geneal. and Herald." Second Series, 1888-9, vol....
9. CHAPTER IV.11. CHAPTER VI.10. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER III.