Chapter III: William Harvey and Experimental Observation, 39

Harvey's work complemental to that of Vesalius, 39. Their combined
labors laid the foundations of the modern method of investigating
nature, 39. Harvey introduces experiments on living
organisms, 40. Harvey's education, 40. At Padua, comes
under the influence of Fabricius, 41. Return to England, 42.
His personal qualities, 42-45. Harvey's writings, 45. His great
classic on movement of the heart and blood (1628), 46. His
demonstration of circulation of the blood based on cogent reasoning;
he did not have ocular proof of its passage through
capillaries, 47. Views of his predecessors on the movement of
the blood, 48. Servetus, 50. Realdus Columbus, 50. Cæsalpinus,
51. The originality of Harvey's views, 51. Harvey's
argument, 51. Harvey's influence, 52. A versatile student;
work in other directions, 52. His discovery of the circulation
created modern physiology, 52. His method of inquiry became
a permanent part of biological science, 53.