Dr. William Harvey Quotes

When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals...

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957.

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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat...

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957.

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The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the...

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957, Dedication to the King.

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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the...

Dr. William Harvey

Letter IX, to John Vlackveld - 24 Apr 1657, in The Circulation of the Blood - 2006.

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It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

Dr. William Harvey

Disputations Touching the Generation of Animals - 1651, translation Gweneth Whitteridge - 1981.

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In man, then, let us take the amount that is extruded by the individual beats, and that cannot return into the heart because of the barrier set in its way by the valves, as half an ounce, or three...

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957, Dedication to Doctor Argent, 7.

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In attempting to discover how much blood passes from the veins into the arteries I made dissections of living animals, opened up arteries in them, and carried out various other investigations. I also...

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957, Dedication to Doctor Argent, 7.

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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

Dr. William Harvey

De Motu Cordis - 1628, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings. Translation Kenneth J. Franklin - 1957, Dedication to Doctor Argent, 7.

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Everyone admits that the male is the primary efficient cause in generation, as being that in whom the species or form resides, and they further assert that his genitures emitted in coitus causes the...

Dr. William Harvey

Disputations Touching the Generation of Animals - 1651, translation Gweneth Whitteridge - 1981.

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And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the...

Dr. William Harvey

Disputations Touching the Generation of Animals - 1651, translation Gweneth Whitteridge - 1981.

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