M0011952: Reproduction of a handwritten excerpt from William Harvey's Lumleian Lecture of 1616 comparing the action of a heart to bellows

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Passage from Harvey comparing action of heart to bellows

Reproduction of a handwritten excerpt from William Harvey's Lumleian Lecture of 1616 comparing the action of a heart to bellows, or the first instance of the doctrine of the circulation of the blood. The excerpt is from Harvey, William (1578-1657): Prelectiones anatomiae universalis London : J. & A. Churchill, 1886, unnumbered plate before page 80. Related image: M0011953

1951

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 11 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised copy of thepublication depicted in the glass plate negative, which is held by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.