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William Harvey was born in 1578 and died in 1657. He studied arts at the University of Cambridge and medicine at the University of Padua. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of London and physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital and to King James I and King Charles I. His discovery of the circulation of the blood was announced in his Lumleian Lectures to the College of Physicians and later published in his book, De Motu Cordis. His other major work was on embryology, published under the title De Generatione Animalium. Harvey was distinguished in many fields of medicine and medical science and is widely regarded as the founder of modern physiology.
威廉·哈维于1578年出生，1657年去世。他在剑桥大学学习文科，在帕多瓦大学学习医学。他是伦敦医师学院的成员，也是圣巴塞洛缪医院以及国王詹姆斯一世和国王查理一世的医生。他对血液循环的发现是在向医师学院发表的卢姆莱讲座中宣布的，后来发表在他的著作《心血运动论》中。他的另一部主要著作是关于胚胎学的，书名为《动物的生殖》。哈维在医学和医学科学的许多领域都很杰出，被广泛认为是现代生理学的奠基人。
