William Harvey lived during the Elizabethan period of England. He studied at Cambridge University and later at the university of Padua, Europe’s most prestigious medical school. In the early 1600s he became King James’s personal physician and continued on as the King’s physician for Charles I. He is best known for his work on the circulatory system. His discoveries overturned Galen theories and laid the foundation for the advancement of Vesalius and Fabricius. Dr. Harvey’s conclusions were based on the keen clinical observations, sound reasoning, meticulous animal dissections, and repeated testing of his facts. Dr. Harvey was the fist to adopt the scientific method for the solution of biologic problems. Every true scientist since has followed dr. Harvey’s approach. He recorded many of his findings in his book “Anatomical Exercise Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals” also known as De Motu Cordis.

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