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Title: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Great Minds Series) by Robert Willis, William C. Harvey ISBN: 0-87975-854-6 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great text in the history of science
Comment: A modern reader of Harvey's most famous and important work, "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals," cannot help but be amazed at the methodical, precise way he goes about demonstrating his thesis. His method is not purely "scientific" in the sense we know it today, but it does represent a great step toward the scientific method. Harvey himself would disagree on this point--he viewed the then-current crop of scientific theorists (Descartes, Bacon, et al.) with disdain. He considered himself a philosopher, and judging by his remarkable adherence to Aristotelian principles, one might be willing to grant him that. History, of course, has judged him to be a scientist and a physician, however, and we have learned to think of him exclusively in those terms. Not that this is a negative or even largely incorrect judgement; it just fails to take into account the full extent of William Harvey the man, and his motivations for inquiry. I think the only proper way to view him is as a transition point between Aristotelian natural philosophy and the scientific method. This book is a remarkable document because it is both a crucial turning point in the history of ideas and proof that those ideas were not so far apart as we have been led to believe.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Book From a Great Mind
Comment: At the time of William Harvey writing this book he was laughed at and riduculed for his beliefs of circulation of the blood. The people at this time were so intwined with Galenic medicine that there was no way Harvey could have been right with his discovery. If you want to see how the thinking was with this subject at this time of civilizations then this book will be wonderful. If you just want some basic history of medicine then this book will be outstanding to you. I highly recommend it.
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Title: The Anatomical Exercises : De Motu Cordis and De Circulatione Sanguinis in English Translation by William Harvey ISBN: 0486688275 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 04 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: From Galileo to Newton by A. Rupert Hall ISBN: 0486242277 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Scientific Renaissance: 1450-1630 (The Rise of Modern Science) by Marie Boas Hall ISBN: 0486281159 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 17 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Paracelsus: Essential Readings by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 1556433166 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine & on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery (Great Minds Series) by Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister ISBN: 1573920657 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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