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William Harvey   /wˈɪljəm hˈɑrvi/   Listen
William Harvey

noun
1.
English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657).  Synonym: Harvey.





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... more happy in his pupils than Theophrastus, for we may watch the same Aristotelian ideas fermenting in the mind of Fabricius's successor, the greatest biologist since Aristotle himself, William Harvey (1578-1657).[53] This writer's work On generation is a careful commentary on Aristotle's work on the same topic, but it is a commentary not in the old sense but in the spirit of Aristotle himself. Each statement is weighed and tested in ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various


Words linked to "William Harvey" :   physician, doctor, Dr., Harvey, doc, medico, scientist, md


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