William Harvey Mind Map
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- William Harvey
- Facts
- Born in 1578
- Studied medicine at Cambridge and then at a medical school in Padua
- in 1615 he became a lecture of anatomy at the College of Physicians - 1618 he was a royal doctor for king James I
- He taught his students that it was important to observe the body and believe waht they saw rather thenbelieving what can been written in classical texts.
- he had a keen interest in dissection and observing the human body
- Discoveries
- Harvey's research involved dissecting human corpses and cutting open cold blooded animals.
- This meant that they had a much slower heart beat, to observe the movement of their blood while they are alive.
- from this he discovered that arteries and veins were linked together in one system
- This meant that they had a much slower heart beat, to observe the movement of their blood while they are alive.
- He found that blood only flowed towards the heart
- He found that blood must pass from arteries to veins through tiny passages that were invisible to the human eye
- Harvey's research involved dissecting human corpses and cutting open cold blooded animals.
- impacts
- He encouraged other scientist to experiment on actual bodies
- he made people have a better understanding of antomy and how the human body functions
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