William Harvey
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William Harvey was born in 1578.
He studied medicine and anatomy at Padua.
He returned to London and became Royal Physician to James I and Charles I.
Harvey did comparisons between animals and humans. Animal hearts he could see beating, and his ideas and tests would relate to human hearts.
He also worked out that Galen must be wrong – the heart was pumping too much blood for it to be made and destroyed – so it must circulate around.
Harvey also worked out the differences between veins and arteries.