William Harvey, the discoverer of blood circulation, was born in Folkestone, England on April 1, 1578. He went up to Cambridge in 1593, where he received his B.A. in 1597, after which he journeyed to Padua in Italy to study medicine. Padua was reputed to be one of the finest universities at the time and had many famous scholars, including Galileo, while Harvey was a student. Harvey received his medical degree in 1602. Back in England, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607, and was appointed to the Saint Bartholomew Hospital, London where he served from 1609 until 1643. He attended the death of James I and he was the personal physician to Charles I. He became President of the Royal Society of Physicians in 1654. Obviously, Harvey was an extraordinarily distinguished physician. However, his publication on the circulation of blood in 1628, a notable example of experimental biology, and correct in...