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William Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent. From the Grammar School in Canterbury he was admitted as a pensioner to Caius College, Cambridge in 1593. He travelled in France, Germany and Italy. At Padua, he came under the influence of Fabricius ab Aquapendente, the Professor of Anatomy. Fabricius taught the existence of valves in the veins of the body, and Harvey was determined to discover their function. This was the foundation of his research on the circulation of the blood. The Royal College of Physicians of London appointed him Lumleian Lecturer and it was in the course of these lectures that he first publicly announced his views regarding the circulation of the blood. Harvey's great work 'Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in animalibus' was published in Frankfurt in 1628.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Title
William Harvey (1578–1657)
Medium
oil on panel
Measurements
H 73.6 x W 60.9 cm
Accession number
PCF25
Acquisition method
presented to the College by Dr Blackhall-Morison, 1925
Work type
Painting