Abstract
The heart and the course of circulation were studied in many lands, over many centuries since the earliest beginnings of scientific enquiry[5,19,20]. The publication of De Motu Cordis[1] by William Harvey in 1628 is one of the major landmarks in the history of medicine. The implications for pediatric cardiology, a discipline yet to be born, were profound, since the nature and relationship of the two circulations, systemic and pulmonary, were now defined.
“This is the circulation which the blood traverses within us. It has been observed in our time, and will serve to revolutionise all of medicine, just as the invention of the telescope has done for astronomy, the compass has done for commerce, and artillery has done for the whole military art.”
Raffaello Magiotti 1637 in a letter to his friends, including Galileo.
Quoted by Bylebyl, J.J., in William Harvey; a conventional medical revolutionary jama 239, 1295–1298, 1978.
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Neill, C.A., Clark, E.B. (1995). Prior To William Harvey. In: The Developing Heart: A ‘History’ of Pediatric Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 163. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8514-9_2
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