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William Harvey
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Noun1.William Harvey - English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the bloodWilliam Harvey - English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)


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Their topics include the notion of contact and the possibility of acting without being affected in Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione, the concept of will in Plotinus, and innovation and continuity in the history of philosophy.
It is in fact odd that after an era in which so much feminist work on early modern culture (and contemporary feminist theory more generally) has gone into asserting female subjectivity by reclaiming women from their association with inert matter (asserted, in the early modern period, in relation to Aristotle's De Generatione Animalium) that Bloom would have us think of women as material again--as the "hearing bodies" (144) in the theater blocking the dispersal of the play's voices.
An alternative theory based on the more empirical Aristotle of the Meteorology and the De generatione et corruptione was elaborated in a chymical context by Paul of Taranto (Geber of the Summa Perfectionis).
 
 
 
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