Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Translator’s Foreword
- Author’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- A Harvey and Descartes
- B The Galenic Paradigm and its Crisis
- C William Harvey: The Vital Aspect of the Circulation
- D The Mechanical Aspect of the Circulation: Descartes and His Followers
- E Vitalism and Mechanism Between 1700 and 1850
- F A Look Ahead
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
Index of Names
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Translator’s Foreword
- Author’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- A Harvey and Descartes
- B The Galenic Paradigm and its Crisis
- C William Harvey: The Vital Aspect of the Circulation
- D The Mechanical Aspect of the Circulation: Descartes and His Followers
- E Vitalism and Mechanism Between 1700 and 1850
- F A Look Ahead
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
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- The Mechanization of the HeartHarvey and Descartes, pp. 243 - 248Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2001