William Harvey Biography

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William Harvey was born on 1st April 1578 in Folkstone, England. Harvey’s father was Thomas Harvey. He was a servant in Mayor Officer on 1600. Harvey’s wife name was Elizabeth Browne, a daughter from Mr. Lancelot Browne. Harvey and Elizabeth didn’t have a child.
His first education in Folkstone, after that he went to Lord School (Canterbury). Then, he studied in Cambridge University and in 1600 he studied in Padua University. He graduated from Padua in 1602 and then, he went back to England for opening practice of medicine. At the same year, he also became a master of physician in St. Bartholomew Hospital, London.
First of all, Harvey arranged opinion about blood circulation with made simple aritmatic calculation. He approximated that, total blood who pumped by every pulse was about 2 ons. So, if pulse 72 times every minute, so that total was about 540 pons every hour, therefore Harvey’s theoretically said, “The same blood regulatively rotate pass by heart.”
After formulating this hypothesis, nine years later Harvey made an experiment and research for determining specific blood circulation. In his book, he explained that artery brings blood from heart, and vena brings blood back to heart.
Harvey was also an embryology expert, he was a careful observer and his book under the title “On the Generation of Animals” was beginning matter of embryology science. In his book, Harvey explained that final structure of animals body grew step by step.
His other famous book was “An Anatomical Treatise on The Movement of The Heart and Blood in Animals.” (1628) this book was started point appear modern physiology science.
Then, he passed away at seventy six years old on 3rd June 1657 in the evening. Harvey was buried in Hempstead, Essex. The funeral procession started at 26th June 1657.