Andrew Gregory Books

"Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology -- science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were among its stars. 'Eureka!' shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature. Their development of a rational 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought." -- from the rear cover.

In 1628, William Harvey announced to the world his discovery of the circulation of the blood. Over 100 years before the Industrial revolution, man began to be understood using mechanical metaphors and Harvey's discoveries were integral to this. But Harvery himself descended from the Aristotelian tradition of anatomy. How did this great revolution come about?