William Havery, De motu cordis

Outline

  • Understanding of the heart and blood vessels in 1500-early 1600s
  • Who was William Harvey?
  • Guide to reading from De motu cordis

    VISUALS
    1. Harvey and the discovery of circulation
    2. Galen
    3. Medieval dissection, by Mondino
    4. Medieval view of the body
    5. later dissection
    6. Rembrandt 1632
    7. Vesalius panorama
    8. Vesalius veins, ateries
    9. Michael Servetus
    10. Realdo Columbus [Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan]
    11. Andreas Cesalpino
    12. Fabricius
      his diagram of veins with "clacks"
      ...of blood vessels: note valves in heart
      ...of branching veins
    13. Wiliam Harvey, 1627 [National Portrait Gallery, London]
    14. Harvey's friends: Robert Fludd and Thomas Hobbes
    15. Borelli, De motu animalium, 1680-81
    16. Fludd's macrocosm

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