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demonstrate, in the case of the most fundamental of all bodily functions, that
physiology must be based on hypothesis, experiment, and logical reasoning.
Nothing less than the invention of modern medical science.
This is the third complete edition of De motu cordis, with the two letters
of Johannes Walaeus (1604–1649) in support of Harvey printed for the Wrst
time. A remarkable survival, this is an untrimmed copy which presumably
remained in a temporary binding – or in sheets – until recently.
For the Wrst edition see Garrison–Morton 759; Dibner, Heralds of Science 123;
Horblit, One Hundred Books Famous in Science 46; Printing and the Mind of Man
127; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 93.
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HARVEY, William (1578–1657)
Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis cum
prefatione Zachariae Sylvii... Accessit Dissertatio de Corde Doct.
Jacobi de Back.
Rotterdam: ex OYcinâ Arnoldi Leers, 1648.
12mo: 12 8
* ** A–I12 ; c2 (–c1) 2A–I12 2K8 (blanks 2K6,7,8), 245 of 246
leaves, pp. [40] 215 [1]; [2] 219 [13] (last 5 pages blank) lacking c1,
the errata leaf to Harvey’s work, supplied as a photographic print.
Engraved title printed on * 1, letterpress title on * 2.
[bound as issued with:]
Exercitationes duae de circulatione sanguinis
Rotterdam: Ex oYcinâ Arnoldi Leers, 1649
12mo: A–F12 , 72 leaves, pp. [2] 140 [2], errata on last leaf, verso blank.
117 x 68mm. Engraved title of Wrst work soiled and slightly frayed
in the margins; small strip cut from top of printed title to remove a
signature; the engraved illustrations oVset onto one another. Overall
lightly soiled and some minor foxing.
Binding: Two works bound together in vellum backed pasteboard.
Recased; worn and soiled.
Provenance: Early inscription clipped from titlepage; Latin inscription
of Charles Townsend dated 1821 on free endleaf; dates between 1840
and 1857 entered in the margins of several pages in another hand.
Seventh editon (including incomplete editions and editions printed
in other works) of De motu cordis (Wrst 1628); second edition of De
circulatione sanguinis (Wrst 1649). Keynes 7, 32; Krivatsy 5332, 5340;
Waller 4091, 4116; Norman Library 1007 and 1010.
This volume contains the third separate edition of De motu cordis and the
second edition of Harvey’s Wrst reply to criticism of his work, De circulatione
sanguinis, Wrst printed earlier in the same year at Cambridge. This edition of De
motu cordis is important for being the Wrst corrected text, revised by Zacharias
Sylvius (1608?–1664) and Jacobus de Back (1593–1658). It includes a preface
by Sylvius and de Back’s Dissertatio de corde which is as long as De motu cordis