CIRCULATION: A LIFE IN CIRCULATION (US TITLE: WILLIAM HARVEY)

Book ID/图书代码： 03540012B52018

English Summary/英文概要： For a man of such diminutive stature, William Harvey made a huge and inestimable impact on modern medicine. Arguably the greatest Englishman in the history of science after Isaac Newton, Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood overturned centuries of long-held beliefs, and unusually, he lived to see his own doctrine established in his lifetime.
Set in the thumping heart of late Renaissance London, Thomas Wright’s vivid portrait of Harvey also shows how his physiological ideas permeated culture and language, from London’s bustling trade networks to the discovery of meteorological cycles, and featuring a dramatic cast of historical characters, from Francis Bacon, England’s erstwhile Lord Chancellor and a former patient, and John Donne’ sensual poetry whose places the heart at the centre of man’s existence, to Robert Fludd, whose corroboration of Harvey’s ideas helped launch his circulation theory. He published his findings in his magnum opus De Motu Cordis in 1628, which he dedicated to King Charles I.
But just as Harvey’s theory placed the heart at the centre of man, it posited the King as the centre of the body politic. It was a conservative and dangerous allegiance – and just as cherished anatomical ideas could be toppled, so was the King in the ensuing Civil War. Harvey was exiled, his London home ransacked, and he died, gout-ridden, in the eaves of his brother’s house in Bishopsgate.
Circulation celebrates the remarkable rise of a yeoman’s son to the elevated position of King’s physician, and above all, admires an extraordinary mind amid a rich, fertile time in England’s intellectual history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一位这种身材矮小的人，威廉•哈维对现代医学作出了巨大的和难以估量的贡献。可以说，继科学史上艾萨克•牛顿之后最伟大的英国人，哈维的血液循环理论，推翻了几个世纪的长期持有的信念，他活着看到在他的一生这种建立了自己的学说。

出生在后期文艺复兴时期的心脏的伦敦，托马斯•赖特栩栩如实描写了哈维，也显示他如何将生理的观点渗透到文化和语言中，从发现伦敦繁华的贸易网络到发现气象循环；历史人物的戏剧演员，从培根，英格兰昔日的大法官和上一个病人，约翰邓恩感性的诗，其核心的地方，在于心处于人得中心位置人。对罗伯特•弗拉德来说，他佐证了哈维的想法，帮助哈维提出了血液循环理论。他出版了他在1628的巨著《解剖学心血管系统》，并把它献给国王查理一世。

但正如哈维的理论认为的心脏是一个人的中心位置，它认为国王是政治体的中心。这是一种保守的和危险的忠诚 —— 就像他所推崇的解剖思想被推翻一样。因此在随后的内战中，哈维被流放，他在伦敦的家被洗劫一空，在毕晓普的哥哥的屋檐下，疾病缠身，直至死亡。

血液循环理论将一个自耕农的儿子提升国王的医生这样一个到高的位置。总之，在英国的思想史中有一个非凡的头脑。(兼职翻译-LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：Wright’s (Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde) “biography of an idea as much as... of a man” presents a wonderful portrait not only of physician William Harvey but also of the changing face of the study of medicine and scientific inquiry in Europe in the early 17th century. In 1628, the socially ambitious and “very cholerique” Harvey shook up the world of anatomy by presenting the radical idea that the heart pumped blood, which then circulated rapidly through both arteries and veins—opposing the revered Galen’s ideas about the role of the heart, arteries, and veins. Harvey challenged the medical establishment with private experiments on lower animals and public presentations of the forceful expulsion of blood from a dog’s punctured pulmonary artery. Bold recreations of such events in Harvey’s life are interspersed with essays illuminating the context in which he developed his ideas, such as the history of animal vivisection as a model for human anatomy. Other essays muse on broader cultural concepts such as metaphorical understandings of the heart and the extension of Harvey’s ideas even beyond where he himself was comfortable. Wright pulls these threads together to create an enjoyably enlightening history of science, with more than enough background included to make this worthwhile for a general academic audience. 36 illus. Agent: Karolina Sutton, Curtis Brown (U.K.) (Oct,)

About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯•赖特是一名自由撰稿人和研究员，家住在伦敦和热那亚。他的第一本书《谈王尔德》（卡塞尔2000）被西蒙•卡洛选为今年他的著作之一。他宣布，它将使我们与有史以来与伟人的最近距离的接触。
继而是《奥斯卡的图书》。查托发表于2008年9月，通过他的书籍，探索王尔德的个性。
他的下一本书，《循环》，将在2012年4月出版。

Thomas Wright is a freelance writer and researcher who lives in London and Genoa. His first book Table Talk of Oscar Wilde (Cassell 2000) was chosen by Simon Callow as one of his books of the year. He proclaimed it ’the closest we’ll ever get to hearing the great man talk’.
This was followed by Oscar’s Books. Published by Chatto in September 2008, it explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading.
His next book, Circulation, will publish in April 2012.

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