This text helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the lifesciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, a prerequisite for William Harvey's fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. The book illuminates the intricate ways in which science and religion interacted in the medieval Islamic world.
This text helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the lifesciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, a prerequisit...
The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Naf s s anatomical discovery from within the medical and theological works of this thirteenth century physician-jurist, and his broader social, religious and intellectual contexts.
Although Ibn al-Naf s did not posit a theory of blood circulation, he nevertheless challenged the reigning Galenic and...
The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William...
