William Harvey Biography

William Harvey biography

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NAME: William Harvey
OCCUPATION: Doctor, Physiologist, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: April 01, 1578
DEATH DATE: June 03, 1657
EDUCATION: Gonville and Caius College, University of Padua
PLACE OF BIRTH: Folkestone, England
PLACE OF DEATH: London, England

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William Harvey was a 17th-century British physician who became the first to document an understanding of blood circulation.

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William Harvey, physician to two consecutive kings, studied blood circulation, and his Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628) recorded his findings. Though Harvey understood that the heart pumped blood into the circulatory system, he had no knowledge of the influence of oxygen in the blood nor knowledge of the existence of capillaries.