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Did Harvey contribute the most to medical knowledge in the Renaissance period?
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Did Harvey contribute the most to medical knowledge in the Renaissance period? In my opinion William Harvey did contribute the most to medical knowledge in the Renaissance period. I believe this for many reasons; William Harvey actually put all of the pieces (previous known knowledge about the Circuitry system) together and looked at the whole picture, and discovered correctly how it worked. There four main doctors who contributed most to medical knowledge, these are Vesalius, Columbo, Frabricius and Harvey. All of these men studied at the University in Peadua, Italy, this at the time was the greatest medical centre in the world. Three of who became professor of Anatomy and succeeded each other, and become very successful, Harvey was actually youngest of these men. Vesalius contribute to medical knowledge was the fact about there being no holes in the Septum, which Galen had said there were holes. Galen's work was...
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