History
According to R.A. Young, "Wiberg suggests that the early Greeks knew of the circulation, and quotes a passage from one of the Hippocratic writings which would bear that interpretation."
Pulmonary circulation was described by Ibn al-Nafis in his Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon (1242). It was also described by Michael Servetus in the "Manuscript of Paris" (near 1546, never published) and later published in his Christianismi Restitutio (1553). Since it was a theology work condemned by most of the Christian factions of his time, the discovery remained mostly unknown until the dissections of William Harvey in 1616.
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