William harvey death

William Harvey (April 1, 1578 - June 3, 1657) was a doctor who first correctly described the circulatory system of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.

Born in Folkestone, Harvey studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1597, and then he studied medicine at the prestigious University of Padua under Fabricius, graduating in 1602.

He returned to England and married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of the court physician to Elizabeth I. He became a doctor at St. Bartholomew's hospital[?] in London (1609-43) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians[?].

He announced his discovery of the circulatory system in 1616 and in 1628 published his work Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), where, based on scientific methodology, he argued for the idea that blood was pumped around the body by the heart before returning to the heart and