I have myself, in my dissections, seen the blood flow from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery, and from the pulmonary vein into the left auricle.
— William Harvey Early Modern

Blood circulation

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De Motu Cordis, Chapter 7

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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