WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did William Harvey do
A
Created the laws of gravity
B
Found cells in organisms
C
Circulation of blood through the body and the heart pumps the blood.
D
Founded the telescope
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Having perceived that the quantity of blood issuing from the heart in any given time was too much to be absorbed by the tissues, he was able to show that the valves in the veins permit the blood to flow only in the direction of the heart and to prove that the blood circulated around the body and returned to the heart.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1628, after 10 years of painstaking solitary research, Harvey at last published his discovery in a book, known as De motu cordis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harvey concluded that the heart pumps blood out through the body through the arteries and the veins return blood to the heart.

Detailed explanation-4: -The right ventricle pumps the low-oxygen blood to the lungs to pick up a fresh supply of oxygen. The left atrium receives to high-oxygen blood from the lungs and pumps it to the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the high-oxygen blood to the rest of the body.

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