William Harvey

• Whose observations did Harvey use during his dissections?

  his own
• What did Harvey observe?

  the flow of blood in reptiles
• What did Harvey dissect and why?

  reptiles as they're cold-blooded therefore their hearts beat slower which makes it easier to observe the flow of blood
• What book of Harvey's observed the flow of blood in reptiles?

  An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• What did Harvey do an experiment to prove and who's work did he use?

  used Vesalius' work to help him prove that blood flows through the heart
• Who did Harvey prove wrong and what did he prove wrong?

  Galen - he proved that the heart acted as a pump for blood and that it wasn't made in liver as a product of food that gets used up
• What did Harvey discover?

  arteries, veins and capillaries
• What other experiments did Harvey do beside the dissection of cold-blooded animals?


  • Dissected human corpses and observed the heart
  • Measured blood flow to show that the same blood is pumped around the body repeatedly by the heart
• When did Harvey publish his book?

  1628