William Harvey — "Nature is a free and open book, to be read and understood by all who have the pa…"
Nature is a free and open book, to be read and understood by all who have the patience and the power to do so.
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About William Harvey (1578-1657)
English physician whose On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628) demonstrated blood circulation, overturning 1,400 years of Galenic medicine. Closely associated with Francis Bacon (his contemporary in the new English empiricism). For an intellectual contrast, see Galenic medicine, the 2nd-century Greek medical tradition (humors, blood-as-consumed-fuel) — Harvey calculated that the heart pumps more blood per hour than the body could possibly produce as fuel — a single quantitative observation that demolished the entire Galenic-Aristotelian medical worldview. The cleanest example in medical history of arithmetic disproving 14 centuries of authority.
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A philosophical statement on the accessibility of natural knowledge through observation.
Date: 17th Century
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