What remains to be said is of so novel and unheard of a character that I not only fear injury to myself from the envy of a few, but I tremble lest I have mankind at large for my enemies, so much to wont and custom that become as another nature, and doctrine once sown that hath struck deep root, and respect for antiquity, influence all men.
— William Harvey Early Modern

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Introduction to his seminal work 'De Motu Cordis' (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), expressing his apprehension about challenging established medical beliefs.

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1628

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Shocking

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