'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood

ISBN-13: 9781032162232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Andrew Cunningham

Opis

This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made.

Spis treści

Preface / Prologue. 'Nine years and more': an overview of the story / Introduction / Chapter 1. Aristotle's animal and the question of the soul / Chapter 2. Aristotle On the causes of the parts of animals / Chapter 3. Aristotle's animal in Padua: the anatomical investigations of Fabricius / Chapter 4. William Harvey: pupil, physician, Professor / Chapter 5. William Harvey, searcher into the vegetative soul / Chapter 6. ‘The wonderful circulation of the blood, first found out by me’ / Chapter 7. Method and experiment / Chapter 8. 'The anatomy of the blood': the blood as a new research object / Chapter 9. Precursing Aristotle: Why and how did we lose this Aristotle? / Chapter 10. Harvey and his historians: Why and how did we lose this Harvey? / Appendix: English or Latin? / Bibliography