William Harvey was also an intense and dedicated observer of birds during his free time: several long and detailed passages of citations could be written delineating his observations in such places as the "Pile of Boulders" (a small island in Lancashire) and 'Bass Rock' (island off the East Coast of Scotland). William Harvey William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the
When I Was One-and-Twenty that he understands the consequences, which is a broken heart, but shows no desire to the reader of preventing it. In the poem, the character is warned not to give his heart away out of lust, but to guard it with care as it is shown in this quote from the poem, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away” (3-4). When the end of the poem is reached, the reader then understands the intention of the poem was not blithe, but the opposing adjective as Housman writes “I am two-and-twenty and oh ’tis true ’tis true”