M0011953: Reproduction of the transcript of an excerpt from William Harvey's Lumleian Lecture of 1616 comparing the action of a heart to bellows

Reproduction of the transcript of an excerpt from William Harvey's Lumleian Lecture of 1616 comparing the action of a heart to bellows, or the first instance of the doctrine of the circulation of the blood. The excerpt is from Harvey, William (1578-1657): Prelectiones anatomiae universalis London : J. & A. Churchill, 1886, page 80. Related image: M0011952

1951

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised copy of thepublication depicted in the glass plate negative, which is held by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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