William Harvey — "I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections…"
I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections; not from the tenets of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.
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De Motu Cordis (Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus), Dedication to King Charles I
Date: 1628
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