Place : France Subject : biography, biology English physician who discovered that blood is circulated around the body by pulsations of the heart, a landmark in medical investigations. His work did much to pave the way for modern physiology. Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, on 1 April 1578. He went to the King's School, Canterbury, and then attended Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge in 1593. He graduated with a BA in 1597 and extended his studies under Fabricius ab Aquapendente at the university medical school in Padua, Italy, gaining his medical degree in 1602. He returned to London, built up a successful practice, and in 1609 he was appointed physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and served as a professor there 1615-43. In 1618 he became Physician Extraordinary to James I, and then Royal Physician, a position he retained until the death of Charles I in 1649. He was elected president of the College of Physicians in 1654 but was too old to accept, and he died three…