 | James G. Lennox, Director Center for Philosophy of Science James G Lennox - 2001 - 350 pages
...dyed): What were the things that had induc'd him to think of a Circulation of the Blood? He answer'd me, that when he took notice that the Valves in the Veins of so many several parts of the Body, were so plac'd that they gave free passage to the Blood Towards the Heart,... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - 344 pages
...dynamic mechanism. When Robert Boyle asked him what had inspired his discovery, [Harvey] answer'd me, that when he took notice that the Valves in the Veins of so many sevral parts of the Body, were so plac'd that they gave free passage to the Blood towards the heart... | |
 | James Peto - 2007 - 288 pages
...him as a result of seeing valves in the veins: ln the only Discourse l had with him . . . [he said that] when he took notice that the Valves in the Veins of so many several parts of the Body, were so Placed that they gave free passage to the Blood Towards the Heart,... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1875 - 780 pages
...death), what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood, he answered me, ' That when he took notice that the valves in the veins...towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way, he was invited to think that so provident a cause as Nature had not placed... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 720 pages
...with him, what were the things that induced him to think of a circulation of the blood, he assured me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins...the body were so placed that they gave free passage of the blood toward the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way, he was... | |
 | 1857 - 696 pages
...him, what were the things which induced him to think of the circulation of the blood, he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage... | |
 | Joseph Needham - 336 pages
...dyed), What were the things that induc'd him to think of a Circulation of the Blood ? He answer'd me, that when he took notice that the Valves in the Veins of so many several parts of the Body, were so Plac'd that they gave free passage to the Blood Towards the Heart,... | |
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I remember, that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him (which was but a while before he died), what were the things that induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that... 
