The heart is the seat of the affections.
Blood circulation
A traditional cultural belief about the heart, which might have coexisted with his scientific understanding.
Uncertain (attributed)
Found in 1 providers: gemini
Cross Reference
1 source
"Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the …"
Philosophical"The body is a machine, but it is a divine machine."
Strange & Unusual"It is only when we have satisfied ourselves by careful dissection that we can truly understand the nature of things."
Strange & Unusual"The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds."
Strange & Unusual"I am not afraid to confess that I am a man who loves to dissect."
Strange & Unusual