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William Harvey
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William Harvey
Specialism: circulation of blood
English doctor/ lecturer
Situation before:
- Galen's idea: liver made blood, burnt by organs
Situation after:
- Better understanding of circulation
Discoveries
- Blood flowed around body
- Arteries carried away from heart
- Veins carried towards heart
- Heart= pump
- Carefully recorded all findings
- Experimented with rods- could only push them one way through
- Calculated total volume of blood by measuring amount pumped in each heart beat
- Many painstaking experiemnts
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- AS Level GCSE Stuff Mind Map on William Harvey, created by hollyweber on 12/01/2014.
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