William Harvey demonstrating with a stag the circulation of the blood to a group of students. William Harvey (April 11, 1578 - June 3, 1657) was an English physician. Harvey was the first person to accurately determine how the heart circulated blood throughout human and animal bodies and was also the first to posit the theory that humans and other mammals reproduced when an egg was fertilized by sperm. His work 'De Motu Cordis', published in 1628, remains a milestone in science.

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William Harvey Demonstrating Circulation

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