Why read The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings?

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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1 author picked The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Helen King

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Go on. Give yourself a treat! Read the book which started it all! There’s nothing quite like reading the original source. Harvey wrote in Latin but this is a good translation with an excellent introduction by Andrew Wear, an expert on the period. And as a bonus, the Everyman edition includes The Anatomy of Thomas Parr – an account of the dissection of a Shropshire farmer said to be 152 years old, performed by Harvey himself. What killed Parr? Coming to London, a city “full of the filth of men”. Be warned!

From Helen's list on discovering the circulation of the blood.