Mapping the Human Blood Circulation

William Harvey

An English physician, anatomist, and physiologist. Known for experimentally studying the function of the heart and blood circulation, systematically revealing the mechanism by which the heart pumps blood throughout the body and blood circulates. Through his 1628 book De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), he published the theory of blood circulation, which had a major impact on the establishment of modern physiology. He served as physician to Kings James I and Charles I, and held important posts in the Royal College of Physicians.

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1578	Birth of William Harvey (Period: April 1, 1578, Location: Folkestone (now Kent, England))
1593	Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (William Harvey, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1593–1597, Location: Cambridge (present-day England))
1599	Medical Studies at the University of Padua (William Harvey, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1599–1602, Location: Padua (present-day Italy))
1602	Return to London and Admission to the Royal College of Physicians (William Harvey, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1602–1607, Location: London (present-day England))
1604	Marriage (William Harvey, Elizabeth Browne, Age: 26 years old, Period: November 24, 1604, Location: St Sepulchre's Church (Newgate, London))
1609	Appointment as Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital (William Harvey, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1609, Location: London)
1610	Establishment of the Theory of Blood Circulation (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1610s–1620s, Location: London)
1615	Appointment as Lumleian Lecturer (William Harvey, Age: 36 years old, Period: 1615–1656, Location: London, Royal College of Physicians)
1618	Appointment as Physician to King James I (William Harvey, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1618, Location: London and the Royal Court of England)
1625	Activities as Physician to Charles I (William Harvey, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1625–1649, Location: London and various parts of England)
1628	War of the Mantuan Succession (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1628–1631, Location: Northern Italy, especially Mantua and Montferrat) Publication of Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1628, Location: Frankfurt (present-day Germany))
1630	Acceptance of the Theory of Blood Circulation in the Medical Community (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1630s–1650s, Location: England and Europe)
1642	English Civil War (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1642–1651, Location: England, Scotland, Ireland) First English Civil War (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1642–1646, Location: Various parts of England, especially the Midlands) Dispersal of Harvey's Research Materials (Age: 63 years old, Period: c. 1642, Location: London) Move to Oxford and Service to the Royalist Cause (William Harvey, Age: 63 years old, Period: 1642–1646, Location: Oxford (present-day England)) Battle of Edgehill (Age: 64 years old, Period: October 23, 1642, Location: Edgehill (Warwickshire, present-day England))
1651	Publication of Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium (Age: 72 years old, Period: 1651, Location: London)
1656	Donation of Estate to the Royal College of Physicians and Resignation as Lumleian Lecturer (William Harvey, Age: 78 years old, Period: July 1656, Location: London, Royal College of Physicians)
1657	Death of William Harvey (Age: 79 years old, Period: June 3, 1657)

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East India Company	James Lancaster John Davis William Keeling Henry Middleton Thomas Best Thomas Roe Josiah Child Gerald Aungier Job Charnock
Expansion into North America	John Smith John Winthrop William Bradford William Penn James Oglethorpe Cecil Calvert John Cabot
Science and Astronomy	Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Francis Bacon René Descartes William Harvey Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Christiaan Huygens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Isaac Newton Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Arts and Culture	Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Diego Velázquez Johannes Vermeer Anthony van Dyck Giovanni Battista Lulli Antoine Watteau

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