William Harvey’s other book: Exercitationes de generatione animalium

1 Harvey W. Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. Francofurti: sumptibus Guilielmi Fitzeri; 1628.

2 Harvey W. Exercitationes duae anatomicae circulatione sanguinis. Roterodami: ex officina Arnoldi Leers; 1649.

3 Webster C. Harvey’s ‘De Generatione’: its origins and relevance to the theory of circulation. Br J Hist Sci 1967; 3:262–74. Webster suggests that Harvey’s interest in embryology may have begun in his student days in Padua (pp. 268–9).

4 Keynes G. The life of William Harvey. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1966.

5 Dick OL , editor. Aubrey’s brief lives. London: Penguin Books; 1962.

6 Harvey W. Exercitationes de generatione animalium. London: Typis Du-Gardianis; 1651.

7 Harvey W. Anatomical exercitations, concerning the generation of living creatures: to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, &c. London: printed by James Young, for Octavian Pulleyn; 1653.

8 Whitteridge G , editor and translator. William Harvey, De motu locali animalium 1627. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal College of Physicians; 1959. For an example of Harvey’s handwriting see the frontispiece: photo of folio 95 of Harvey’s manuscript BL MS Sloan 486.

9 Whitteridge G , editor and translator. Disputations touching the generation of animals by William Harvey. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1981.