William Harvey
1578–1657
Physician. Royal physician to James VI and I and Charles I. Fellow and benefactor of the Royal College of Physicians. Best known for his discovery of the circulation of the blood. Established the Harveian oration in 1656.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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