What Did William Harvey Discover

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Harvey, a doctor in London, was the doctor to both James I and Charles I.

His key idea what that blood circulated around the body. He proved the heart was simply a pump for forcing blood through the body, proving Galen's theory that the body made new blood wrong.

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