Chapter II: Introduction: 9

CHAP.

I. THE AUTHOR’S MOTIVES FOR WRITING 22

II. OF THE MOTIONS OF THE HEART, AS SEEN IN THE DISSECTION OF
LIVING ANIMALS 24

III. OF THE MOTIONS OF ARTERIES, AS SEEN IN THE DISSECTION OF
LIVING ANIMALS 28

IV. OF THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND ITS AURICLES, AS SEEN IN THE
BODIES OF LIVING ANIMALS 31

V. OF THE MOTION, ACTION, AND OFFICE OF THE HEART 37

VI. OF THE COURSE BY WHICH THE BLOOD IS CARRIED FROM THE VENA
CAVA INTO THE ARTERIES, OR FROM THE RIGHT INTO THE LEFT
VENTRICLE OF THE HEART 42

VII. THE BLOOD PERCOLATES THE SUBSTANCE OF THE LUNGS FROM THE
RIGHT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART INTO THE PULMONARY VEINS
AND LEFT VENTRICLE 49

VIII. OF THE QUANTITY OF BLOOD PASSING THROUGH THE HEART FROM
THE VEINS TO THE ARTERIES; AND OF THE CIRCULAR MOTION
OF THE BLOOD 55

IX. THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS CONFIRMED FROM
THE FIRST PROPOSITION 58

X. THE FIRST POSITION: OF THE QUANTITY OF BLOOD PASSING FROM
THE VEINS TO THE ARTERIES. AND THAT THERE IS A CIRCUIT OF
THE BLOOD, FREED FROM OBJECTIONS, AND FARTHER CONFIRMED
BY EXPERIMENT 64

XI. THE SECOND POSITION IS DEMONSTRATED 67

XII. THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS SHOWN FROM THE
SECOND POSITION DEMONSTRATED 75

XIII. THE THIRD POSITION IS CONFIRMED: AND THE CIRCULATION OF
THE BLOOD IS DEMONSTRATED FROM IT 78

XIV. CONCLUSION OF THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE CIRCULATION 85

XV. THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS FURTHER CONFIRMED BY
PROBABLE REASONS 86

XVI. THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS FURTHER PROVED FROM
CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES 90

XVII. THE MOTION AND CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD ARE CONFIRMED
FROM THE PARTICULARS APPARENT IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE
HEART, AND FROM THOSE THINGS WHICH DISSECTION UNFOLDS 96

THE FIRST ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE
BLOOD, ADDRESSED TO JOHN RIOLAN 111

A SECOND DISQUISITION TO JOHN RIOLAN; IN WHICH MANY OBJECTIONS
TO THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD ARE REFUTED 131

LETTERS

TO CASPAR HOFMANN, M.D. 175

TO PAUL MARQUARD SLEGEL, OF HAMBURG 176

TO THE VERY EXCELLENT JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE 184

IN REPLY TO R. MORISON, M.D., OF PARIS 185

TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LEARNED JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE 193

TO JOHN DANIEL HORST, PRINCIPAL PHYSICIAN OF HESSE-DARMSTADT 195

TO THE DISTINGUISHED AND LEARNED JOHN DAN. HORST, PRINCIPAL
PHYSICIAN AT THE COURT OF HESSE-DARMSTADT 197

TO THE VERY LEARNED JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE, A MAN DISTINGUISHED
ALIKE FOR HIS VIRTUES, LIFE, AND ERUDITION 199

TO THE DISTINGUISHED AND ACCOMPLISHED JOHN VLACKVELD, PHYSICIAN
AT HARLEM 200