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William Harvey William Harvey was born in 1578, around the time of Shakespeare, and grew to receive a fine education and a degree at Cambridge at the age of 20, and then went on to study in Italy at Padua University, the most prestigious medical university in Europe at that time. He graduated with honours and returned to England in 1602 to return to Cambridge and receive another medical degree from Cambridge. It was then that he decided he had enough education and began to formally practise medicine. Harvey's true passion was circulation. At the time, common belief was that food was absorbed into the liver and then changed into blood, which was used as a fuel for the body. Because of Harvey's studies of the human body involving dissection, he knew that this could not have been true, so he threw himself into working on how the circulatory system worked....

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