Hence, he concluded, blood had to return to the heart. What clinched the discovery, in addition to Harvey’s recognition of the valves’ importance in maintaining circulation, was his unprecedented ...

The English physician William Harvey was the first to explain how our pumping hearts circulate blood. Though circulation remained the primary focus of his medical research, Harvey also studied ...

William Harvey Heart Centre was opened in 2011 by Sir William Castell ... This group provides a completely new skill set, working alongside existent gene discovery scientists, vascular biologists and ...

Galen, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who lived during Roman times, described the heart as the body's furnace, while William Harvey's 1628 discovery of circulation reshaped our ...

A few individuals, such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey, made particularly ... working of the cardiovascular system (the heart and blood vessels). This led him to reject ...

Harvey dissected frogs, which have a slow pulse rate, and showed that blood was pumped around the body by the heart. He also discovered the role of valves in blood vessels, which make sure blood ...