"William Harvey: And the Mechanics of the Heart" by Jole Shackelford (Repost)
"William Harvey: And the Mechanics of the Heart" by Jole Shackelford
OxfUni Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0195120493 9780195120493 | 145 pages | PDF/djvu | 10/3 MB
OxfUni Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0195120493 9780195120493 | 145 pages | PDF/djvu | 10/3 MB
A biography of the eminent seventeenth century physician and scientist who discovered the functions of the heart, arteries, and veins in the circulation of blood.
William Harvey is the riveting story of a seventeenth-century man of medicine and the scientific revolution he sparked with his amazing discoveries about blood circulation within the body.
A revealing look at the changing social, religious, and political beliefs of the time, William Harvey documents how one man's originality helped introduce a new way of conducting scientific experiments that we still use today.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter : A Young Physician in Shakespeare's England
Sidebar: Renaissance Medicine
Chapter 2: The Circulation of the Blood
Sidebar The Pulmonary Transit
Chapter 3: Royal Physician and Scholar
Chapter 4: The Reception of Harvey's Ideas
Sidebar: Galen's Arterial Tube Experiment
Chapter 5: Harvey's Last Years and His Legacy
Sidebar; Harvey's Discovery and the Abandonment of Ancient Medical Theory
Epilogue
Chronology
Further Reading
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks