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| Title | Gvilielmi Harveii opera omnia |
| Subject | Blood--Circulation; Physiology |
| Creator | Harvey, William, 1578-1657 |
| Description | The English physician William Harvey discovered of the circulation of the blood. Harvey studied medicine at Cambridge and at Padua University (where Andreas Vesalius had taught a half century previously). Harvey was ahead of his time in the study of obstetrics. This work, founded upon empirical experimentation, contains the first original work on obstetrics published by an English author. Harvey included an anatomical description of the ovary of the hen, described the new-laid egg, then gave an account of the appearance seen on the successive days of incubation, and lastly described the process of hatching. He described the uterus of the doe, the process of impregnation, and the subsequent development of the fetus. Harvey insisted from these and other studies that all animals arise from ova. The theories proposed in this book were not to be proved until 1827. The engraved title-page depicts Jove holding a broken egg, out of which bursts all manner of animal and plant life, including a man, a reindeer, a grasshopper, and a dolphin. |
| Date | 1766 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
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| Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Scanning Technician | Natalia Soto |
| Call Number | QP6 .H32; Record ID 99113740102001 |
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