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William Harvey was born on April 1st, 1578 in Folkestone, Kent, England. He was the son of a business man and mayor of Folkestone. He was the oldest of 7 brothers and 2 sisters.

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At the age of 10, Harvey attended Kings grammar school. While at Kings, he lived with an uncle.

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After leaving King's, William Harvey attended the University of Padua. While at this University he studied under Hieronymous Fabricius, a famous Italian atomist and surgeon. Fabricius had a great deal of impact on Harvey's later work.

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After returning to London from Padua William Harvey met and married Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of an esteemed physician. William and Elizabeth never had any children.

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In 1636 William Harvey was appointed doctor on a trip to see the Roman emperor. On this trip he met Casper Hoffman, to whom Harvey tried to demonstrate the circulation of blood.

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In 1642, Harvey's house was ransacked with troops. They took great amounts of his work. In 1666 a library Harvey helped establish was engulfed with flames.

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Harvey's greatest achievement was his idea that blood flows through the human body and is pumped by the arteries through the veins. This idea was published in his book Anatomical exercise on the motion of the heart and blood in animals.

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William Harvey died of a stroke 6 years after a suicide attempt at the age of 79.