Question

Identify the individual who was responsible for explaining the circulatory system.

Answer 1

William Harvey,a Britsh scientist ,was responsible for discovering the circulatory system

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is: William Harvey.

Explanation:

William Harvey was an English physician, He was born in April 1, 1578. He received the degree of Medical Doctor from the University of Padua, Italy in 1602.

He published the  "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus", commonly referred to as "de Motu Cordis" in 1612, a book that explored the human circulatory system.

He discovered that, unlike what physicians believed at the time, it was not the lungs who were responsible for the pumping of the blood, but the heart. And that the blood pushed by the ventricles flows through the lungs and heart and is pumped to the whole body.