 April 1st, 1578. His father, a prosperous Kentish yeoman, sent him through the Canterbury grammar school. At nineteen he took his BA degree from Caius College, Cambridge, and at twenty-four he was made a doctor of medicine by the University of Padua,...  The British Homoeopathic Review - Page 4801892Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...paradox in pride — it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. BIOGRAPHY. WILLIAM HARVEY. The discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkstone, in 1 578, and educated at Canterbury school. He afterwards went to Caius College, Cambridge.... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...; and in 1840, 4244165 more. What was the population in each of the above mentioned years ? 18. Mr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born in 1578, at Folkstone, in Kent ; George Edwards, th« ornithologist, was born 116 years later ; William... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1871 - 750 pages
...his political writings. See Wood's Athena; Oxonienses; Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. — Eos. t William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone, in Kent, 1578, nnd died in 1657. His " Exercitationes de Generatione Animalum " was... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1871 - 612 pages
...his political writings. See Wood's Athenie Oxonienses; Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. — EDS. t William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone, in Kent, 1578, und died in 1657. His " F.xcrcitationes de Generationc Animahim " was... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1886 - 216 pages
...term. WILLIAH HAUTET. Olve a «ketch of th« celebrated physiologist. WUUam Barvcr. д. ц. Anncer.— William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkstone, Eng., April 1, 1578. He was of a well-todo family, and received a university education,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 418 pages
...mentioned. In the second volume of his Journey from Dover to the Land's End he mentions the fact that Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born in Folkstone, and buried at Hempstead in Herts. There are Hempsteads in Norfolk, Gloucester, and Essex.... | |
 | Medicine - 1893 - 874 pages
...•°c»<»™ 90 Company Fltlh Avenue, MEW YORK. An Unprecedented Offer in the Annals of Medical Journalism. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone, County of Kent, England, on the 1st of April, 1578. His father was a yeoman, and five... | |
 | Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 404 pages
...mixture of accident, a capital discovery in one of the most important branches of science." — HULME. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone, Kent, 1578. Hi.- father was a yeoman. After six years attendance at the Grammar School,... | |
 | Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 378 pages
...mixture of accident, a capital discovery in one of the most important branches of science." — HULME. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone, Kent, 1578. Hin father was a yeoman. After six years attendance at the Grammar School,... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - Kent (England) - 1909 - 162 pages
...fitting memorial to his work. BK 9 There now remain to be mentioned two of the greatest men of science. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born at Folkestone in 1578, and in that town there is a fine statue to his memory. Charles Darwin, whose... | |
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