William Harvey, an Aristotelian anatomist.
William Harvey has long been celebrated as the founding father of physiology for refuting Galen and demonstrating that blood circulates round the body. Yet after his training at Padua, he became a committed Aristotelian: although strongly influencing the new observational sciences of the seventeenth century, Harvey himself looked back towards the classical past.
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Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
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