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Anatomy
The science dealing with the
structure
of
animals
and plants
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William
Harvey
Studied medicine at the University of
Cambridge
and at a famous medical school in Padua, Italy, during the
Renaissance
Was interested in
anatomy
Became a
lecturer
in anatomy
Was a doctor to
Charles
I
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Galen's
ideas
Blood
was made in the
liver
and then pumped around the body
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Harvey proved
Galen's
ideas were
wrong
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Valves
Devices that allow movement in
one
direction
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Harvey proved the veins of the body contained
valves
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Harvey's experiments
1.
Dissecting human corpses
2.
Carefully observing
the
heart
3.
Dissecting cold-blooded animals
, such as
frogs
4.
Measuring blood flow
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Corpse
A
dead body
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Dissection
The action of cutting apart the body of an animal or plant to
examine
its
internal
structure
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In 1628, Harvey published his discovery in a book called An
Anatomical
Account of the
Motion
of the Heart and Blood
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Harvey's discovery
The heart acts as a
pump
, moving
blood
around the body
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Mechanical
Operated by
machinery
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Mechanical water pumps used by firefighters in the
17th
century may have given Harvey the idea that
blood
is pumped around the body by the heart</b>
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Harvey was unable to explain how
blood
moves from the
arteries
to the veins
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Microscope
A scientific instrument that uses a magnifying lens to allow observation of objects too
small
to be viewed by the
naked
eye
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Marcello Malpighi used one of the first effective microscopes to discover tiny
blood
vessels that carry blood from the
arteries
to the veins, which we call capillaries
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Capillaries
Tiny blood vessels linking
arteries
to
veins
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Microscopes
were a key technological development in the Renaissance that transformed
medical knowledge
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