What is William Harvey?
[[File:William Harvey.jpg|right|thumb|200px|William Harvey]] '''William Harvey''' was an [[English people|English]] [[medicine|medical]] [[Medical doctor|doctor]]. He was born in [[Folkestone]], [[Kent]], [[England]] on 1 April 1578. He was the first to explain how [[blood]] was moved through the [[body]] by the [[heart]]. He died on 3 June 1657 in [[Roehampton]]. A hospital in Ashford, Kent is named after Harvey. He went to [[The King's School]], [[Canterbury]], then [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]. He then went to [[University of Padua]] where he [[wikt:graduate|graduated]] in 1602. When Harvey returned to England he married Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I's]] royal [[Medical doctor|physician]]. He became a doctor at [[St. Bartholomew's Hospital]] in [[London]] from 1609 until 1643. == Circulatory system == William Harvey is [[celebrity|famous]] for his [[idea]] on blood being pumped around the body by the heart. He was the first to describe correctly and in detail the circulation and its properties. A few men knew about the lesser circulation of the blood through the lungs, but their work was lost. One 16th century work on [[theology]], entitled ''Cristianismi restitutio'', was written by Miguel Serveto. After he had been burnt at the stake for [[heresy]] (by [[Calvin]]), his book was destroyed. Three copies survived. A century and a half later, long after Harvey, someone noticed he had said something about the blood circulating.<ref name=Singer/> Harvey announced his [[Discovery|discoveries]] about the [[circulatory system]] in 1616 during a series of [[lecture]]s (his lecture notes still exist).<ref name=Singer>Singer, Charles & Underwood, E. Ashworth 1962. ''A short history of medicine''. 2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 119/120.</ref> He wrote a book (''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et sanguinis in Animalibus'') about it in 1628.<ref>Harvey, William (1628) 1993. ''The circulation of the blood and other writings''. London: Everyman: Orion Publishi