Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1628 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vesalius and Harvey: The Body Observed
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The idea
Medicine still followed Galen's four humors and bled the sick. Andreas Vesalius, fifteen fourteen to sixty-four, a Fleming at Padua, published anatomy from cadavers; William Harvey, fifteen seventy-eight to sixteen fifty-seven, showed the heart pumps blood in circulation, not the liver.
In practice
Renaissance drawing and print made anatomy shareable.
Where people slip
Both rest on the anchor; the anchor calls Vesalius Italian. Contagion stayed unexplained.
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