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Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea


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Diminutive, brilliant and choleric, William Harvey had a huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. Arguably the greatest Englishman in the history of science after Newton and Darwin, Harvey's obsessive quest to understand the movement of the blood overturned beliefs held by anatomists and physicians since Roman times. His circulation theory was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. Set in the beating heart of late Renaissance London, Thomas Wright's vivid and visceral biography shows how Harvey drew inspiration not only from his dissections and vivisections, but also from the world around him- from England's bustling trade networks to technological developments of the time. It features a dramatic cast of historical characters, including Francis Bacon, England's Lord Chancellor and a recalcitrant patient of Harvey's; John Donne, a poet and preacher fascinated with anatomy and the human heart; and King Charles I, Harvey's beloved patron and witness to many of his experiments. Harvey's circulation theory, in turn, permeated and altered the culture and language of its time, influencing poets and economists. To the dismay of the arch

About the Author :
Thomas Wright was educated at Saint Thomas More RC School, Bedford, and Magdalen College, Oxford. His groundbreaking Oscar's Books (Chatto & Windus, 2008), a portrait of his hero Oscar Wilde though his reading, was hailed by Craig Brown as 'an original and eccentric landmark in the art of literary biography'. His play, Death in Genoa, was recently produced in London and broadcast on website of The Independent. He lives in Oxford.

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Thomas Wright's book opens brilliantly and bloodily and continues - forgive the pun - in the same vein... A captivating intellectually gripping journey into our country's scientific past Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally A concise, skilful and often eloquent book In Circulation, Wright tells a good story, warts and all Lives that look successful from the outside may seem failures to those who live them. Thomas Wright’s acute, imaginative book suggests William Harvey’s life was like that


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780701185732
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 456 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0701185732
  • Publisher Date: 05 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea
  • Width: 161 mm


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