William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood

Huxley, Thomas Henry · 1895

I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble Englishman--William Harvey. William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until the year 1657, he very nearly attained the age of 80. He was the son of a small landowner in Kent, who was sufficiently wealthy to send this, his eldest son, to the University of Cambridge; while he embarked the others in mercantile pursuits, in which they all, as time passed on, attained riches.…

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