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Born:
April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, England
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June 3, 1657, London (aged 79)
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William Harvey (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, England—died June 3, 1657, London) was an English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. Harvey had seven brothers and two sisters, and his father, Thomas Harvey, was a farmer and landowner. Harvey attended the King’s School in Canterbury, Kent, from 1588 to 1593 and went on to study arts and medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1593 to 1599. He continued his studies at the University of Padua, the ...(100 of 2112 words)

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