London: Francis Leach for Richard Lowndes, 1653

The first English translation, edited by Keynes in 1928 for the tercentenary of the original edition. It does not include the plates showing the functions of the valves in veins. Harvey was a key figure for Keynes (‘my hero’), whose own Blood transfusion (London, 1922) was the first textbook on the subject published in Great Britain. In his autobiography The gates of memory (Oxford, 1981), Keynes tells how his mother found him on the nursery floor, aged three, studying a book with diagrams of the circulation of the blood. His life of Harvey (Oxford, 1966), the first large-scale biography Keynes attempted, won the James Tait Black memorial prize.

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