Circulation by Thomas Wright
William Harvey had a huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. Harvey's obsessive quest to understand the movement of the blood overturned beliefs held by anatomists and physicians since Roman times. His circulation theory was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
Thomas Wright's book opens brilliantly and bloodily and continues - forgive the pun - in the same vein.. A captivating intellectually gripping journey into our country's scientific past -- Druin Burch * Mail on Sunday *
Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *
A concise, skilful and often eloquent book -- Charles Nicholl * The Guardian *
In Circulation, Wright tells a good story, warts and all -- Duncan Wu * Independent *
Lives that look successful from the outside may seem failures to those who live them. Thomas Wright’s acute, imaginative book suggests William Harvey’s life was like that -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *
A concise, skilful and often eloquent book -- Charles Nicholl * The Guardian *
In Circulation, Wright tells a good story, warts and all -- Duncan Wu * Independent *
Lives that look successful from the outside may seem failures to those who live them. Thomas Wright’s acute, imaginative book suggests William Harvey’s life was like that -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
Thomas Wright was educated at Saint Thomas More RC School, Bedford, and Magdalen College, Oxford. His groundbreaking Oscar's Books (Chatto & Windus, 2008), a portrait of his hero Oscar Wilde though his reading, was hailed by Craig Brown as 'an original and eccentric landmark in the art of literary biography'. His play, Death in Genoa, was recently produced in London and broadcast on website of The Independent. He lives in Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701185732 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701185732 |
| Title | Circulation |
| Author | Thomas Wright |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2013 (UK) |
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