The Mechanization of the Heart:: Harvey & Descartes

by Thomas Fuchs

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 beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs begins by comparing the views...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460771
• ISBN13: 9781580460774
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"