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 educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was for some time perpetual curate of Stroud, and Prebend of Rochester. His attainments secured him a Fellowship and the vice-presidentship of the Royal Society. He published many works on natural history, mathematics, and astronomy, as well as sermons; but he is best known as the compiler of a "Collection of Voyages," 1702, of an Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of the Arts, entitled "Lexicon Technicum," which may be regarded as the original of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and of a "History of Kent" published in 1709. He died in poverty in the year 1719.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1814; "Rees's Cyclopædia"; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,"]  WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657)

PHYSICIAN AND ANATOMIST,

Whose discovery of the circulation of the blood completely revolutionised the science of medicine, was born at Folkstone, 1st April, 1578. He was educated at Canterbury, and at Caius College, Cambridge, subsequently studying medicine and anatomy in the universities of France, Germany, and Italy. On his return to London he became a member of the College of Physicians, and was appointed to deliver the Lumleian lectures at S. Bartholomew's Hospital. It was at this time that he first gave the world a glimpse of his grand discovery, which he himself affirms, first dawned upon him from a study of the valves of the veins, as exhibited by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, his master when at Padua. It was not till 1628, however, that