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      • Thomas Fuchs, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
      • Translated by Marjorie Grene, University of California, Davis and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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    • Publisher:
      Boydell & Brewer
      Publication date:
      January 2025
      November 2001
      ISBN:
      9781580466042
      9781580460774
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781580466042
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      • Subjects:
      Medicine: General Interest, Medicine
      Series:
      Rochester Studies in Medical History
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    Medicine: General Interest, Medicine
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    Rochester Studies in Medical History
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    In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beat and circulation of the blood; Fuchs traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

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