Working from his London home in the midst of the 17th century, William Harvey, doctor and anatomist, changed the way we view life itself. Harvey’s experiments, his observations of the beating hearts of animals and dissections of hanged men, revealed a revolutionary new truth. Blood was not, as had been thought for almost 2000 years, ‘cooked’ in the liver, but circulated around the body from the heart. This startling realisation overturned nearly two millennia of received knowledge, gave birt... See more >