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Quotation from The Works of William Harvey by William Harvey
“I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from the positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature”
The Works of William Harvey, De Motu Cordis, Dedication to Dr Argent and the College of Physicians, trans. Robert Willis (1847)
Harvey explains to his colleagues why he will not pad his treatise with citations of other anatomists.
Citation: "I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from the positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature" — William Harvey, The Works of William Harvey, De Motu Cordis, Dedication to Dr Argent and the College of Physicians, trans. Robert Willis (1847). (id harvey-works-q1)
