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William Harvey (1 Apr 1578 - 3 Jun 1657)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12531?docPos=3 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey Authority - early modern
 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu; de membranis ac humoribus uteri; & de conceptione.
 References in Documents:
An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865) [*][? At Witney, 1674. Presented to Plot by the Rev. Mr. Hinton. Harvey had exhibited a similar specimen to Charles I. Plot, p. 180.]
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

The largeness of the Head and Chest, with respect to the other parts, is observable. The mouth being open, shews that the Fœtus, even in the 4th Month, may that way take part of its Aliment. (d) See (d) See Harvey de Generat. Animalium. The Skin hath been kept white and smooth for so long a time, scil. above fifteen years, by being included with rectified spirit of Wine in a Cylindrical Glass; to the middle of which the Fœtus is poised, by means of a Glass Buble of an Inch diametre, the Neck whereof is fastned to the Anus of the Fœtus by a wyer.