Acknowledgements 1
Dedication 1
Introduction 1
1 The Background to Harvey s Discovery 11
Galen 14
Galen on the Heart and Blood 17
Harvey 28
The Renaissance 31
Vesalius 34
Fabricius 39
Renaissance Art 42
Renaissance Art and Anatomy 44
2 Harvey s Discovery of the Circulation 56
De Motu Cordis 64
The Circulation 66
The Venous Valves 70
The Ligature Experiments 72
The Flow-Rate Experiment 79
The Motion of the Heart 84
The Pulse and the Heart Valves 88
3 The Nature of Harvey s Discovery 95
The Scientific Revolution 97
Harvey and Aristotle 105
Harvey and Quantification 107
Harvey and Mechanical Models 111
Harvey and the Natural Magic Tradition 114
Harvey and Witchcraft 127
Harvey and the Scientific Revolution 131
4 The Reception of Harvey s Discovery 135
Opposition to Harvey 140
The Theory of Ebullition 144
What is Actually Seen? 147
Other Objections 150
The Dispute with Descartes 159
Harvey s Later Work 165
Conclusion 170
Further Reading 176
Glossary 179