William Harvey : a history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood / by R. Willis ; with a portrait of Harvey, after Faithorne.
- Date:
- 1878
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Credit: William Harvey : a history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood / by R. Willis ; with a portrait of Harvey, after Faithorne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![logic,” as he says, “had asserted and described the cir- culation long before Harvey had any idea of it. It was no fault of mine if you did not read what I had written.” Harvey.—“ Do not be angry, Professor Cesal- pino ; it may be that I have read you amiss. I do not deny that you have shown some knowledge of the cir- culation [the word should be motion] of the blood, but not more or more accurately than Servetus, Colombo, Fra Paolo, and d’Aquapendente my master.” Cesalpino. “ I would rather refer my case to another than appear as judge in it myself.” Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Galen are now intro- duced, and Cesalpino, addressing them as “ Grandi Maestri delle scienze naturali,” proceeds to state his claims to the discovery of the circulation, in opposition to those of Harvey. Hippocrates asks, very per- tinently, as it seems, how it happens that it is only since Harvey came to dwell in Elysium that the question in debate has arisen ? To which he of Arezzo replies, that “ folks in the olden time made less ado about discoveries, and were less interested in ascribing them to their authors. But history is more exacting now, and would have the story of this great discovery so told that the glory of having made it may not be taken from me, from Italy, from Tuscany, from the University of Pisa, even from my native Arezzo, and wrongfully ascribed to Harvey, to England, and to London!” In the face of this flourish, another interpretation](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21996404_0354.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
