William Harvey's
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals.
“Thus nature, ever perfect and divine, doing nothing in vain,
has neither given a heart where it was not required, nor produced it
before its office had become necessary; but by the same stages in the
development of every animal, passing through the forms of all, as I
may say (ovum, worm, fœtus), it acquires perfection in each.”
- William Harvey
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