Diagrams illustrating William Harvey's experiments on a bandaged arm, 1628. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings), commonly called De Motu Cordis, is the best-known work of the physician William Harvey (1578-1657), which was first published in 1628 and established the circulation of blood throughout the body.

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