Leiden: Johannes Maire, 1639

Harvey studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, and at Padua under Fabricius. His discovery of the circulation of the blood was a radical departure from the accepted Galenic view and gained a mixed reception. The two plates shown here illustrate the function of the valves in veins and were adapted from Fabricius’ De venarum ostiolis (Padua, 1603). Keynes had an almost complete collection of Harvey’s works, lacking only the first edition of De motu cordis (Frankfurt, 1628).

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