On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

Description

Published in 1628 in the city of Frankfurt, Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus contains the matured account of the circulation of the blood. Opening with a dedication to King Charles I, the quarto has 17 chapters which give a perfectly clear and connected account of the action of the heart and the consequent movement of the blood around the body in a circuit.

Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set.

Part of the Harvard Classics set.

This book has 88 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1628.

Production notes: This ebook of On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals was published by Global Grey in 2018.