# William Harvey (@william-harvey)

William Harvey was a English physician and anatomist. Harvey combined dissection, vivisection, valve observations and quantitative reasoning to argue that the heart pumps blood in a circuit.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from William Harvey's public record._

## Topics

- [Experiment and Context](/@william-harvey/experiment-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Circulation of the Blood](/@william-harvey/circulation-of-the-blood.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [De Motu Cordis](/@william-harvey/de-motu-cordis.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp89393/harvey-william
- blog: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/william-harvey
- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/books-about.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "william-harvey", "question": "…"}`.