It is a thing alike wonderful and incredible, to observe how the blood, from the very beginning of its motion, is distributed from the heart through the whole body, and then returns to the heart again.
— William Harvey Early Modern

Blood circulation

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De Motu Cordis, Chapter 8

Date / Period

1628

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32689/32689-h/32689-h.htm

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