An Anatomical Disquisition On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

…et Sanguinis in Animalibus (The Anatomical Exercises Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals) in 1628. His discovery, that blood circulates around the body in a closed system, was an essential prerequisite of the concept of transfusing blood from one animal to another of the same…

…his classic book Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood), often called De Motu Cordis.

…et Sanguinis in Animalibus (An Anatomical Dissertation upon the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals) usually is identified as the beginning of modern experimental physiology. Harvey’s study was based only on anatomical experiments; despite increased knowledge in physics and chemistry during the 17th century, physiology remained closely…