Harvey, William (1578-1657)
- Date:
- 20 May 1636
- Reference:
- MS.8653
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Two positive copies of a letter from Harvey to Caspar Hofmann dated 20 May 1636, Nuremberg: the copies date from 1959. Reproduced from the original in Brera Library, Milan. Translated in Geoffrey Keynes' The Life of William Harvey (1966), pp. 233-7.
(Formerly also contained large format negatives. These now destroyed as they had decayed beyond safety and retrieval. A note inside the negative packet stated 'Printe sent to Dr Janker 3.9.1959)
Publication/Creation
20 May 1636
Physical description
1 file
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Biographical note
William Harvey was an English physician famed for being the first to describe the circulation of the blood and his many animal physiology experiments. He was born in Folkstone, Kent and studied at King's College at Canterbury, Cambridge and Padua, Italy. In 1604 he married the daughter of Queen Elizabeth's I physician, Elizabeth Browne, and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607. In 1609 he became physican to St Bartholomew's and went on to become the Royal Physician. Although he is less renowned for it, he was the first to record that mamalian reproduction consisted of the fertilisation of an egg by sperm.
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