Volume 2

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1578-1657. De motu cordis. English
Date:
1653
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Credit: The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1158595591440 | SESSSSESH SESSTGSTTSSSS STEEDS | Lhe ‘Preface of ZACH A- | RIE WOOD, Phyfcian ! — at Roterdam, upon the Anato- mical exercife of Doétor WV lL.- LIAM HARVEY, <a] L isa memorable ftory which is rela» | ted by one Aventine a Boian Writer, aZ E bee lox»! That Bonifacius a certain Bifhop of i d AQ | made before the people ofthofe times , make meri- | tion ofthofe men whofe footíteps tread oppofite to | ours, was fo much incenfed , that he did not ftick (d to accufe Virgil of Blafphemie, as that having {poke of the Antipodes , he did feem plainly to aim atanother Chrift; and having related the bufi- nefle to Htilio King of the Eoi; , he procured the Letters of Pope Zacharie to Utilie, and fo Virgil | (was both condemned by the Kings and the Popes Verdict There is fuch another ftory related of De- mocritus This Democritus being a diligent fearcher of the works of Nature, whilft he was continually bufied in cutting up of creatures, he was thought v TO 2. mad