The Description of the Human Body He believed the heat of the heart somehow caused all movement of the body. Blood vessels he realized were pipes, he saw that veins carried digested food to the heart. (This was brought further by William Harvey. Harvey developed the idea of the circulation of the blood.) Descartes felt that an energetic part of blood went to the brain and there gave the brain a special type of air imbued with vital force that enabled the brain to experience, think and imagine. This special air then went through the nerves to the muscles enabling them to move. The Description of
When I Was One-and-Twenty away your entitlement and can land you in a world full of misery, “One of the simplest and best known poems in A Shropshire Lad, with its obvious backwards glance to Oxford and Moses Jackson, goes so far as to suggest that falling in love is, by definition, bound to lead in lasting unhappiness” (Blocksidge). Blocksidge, Martin. A. E. Housman : A Single Life. Sussex Academic Press, 2016. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.mga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1234156&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 1 March 2018. Grimes, Linda Sue. “A. E. Housman's "When I was one-and-Twenty".” Owlcation, Owlcation, 3 Jan. 2018, owlcation.com/humanities/A-E-Housmans-When-I-was-one-and-twenty. Accessed 25 January 2018. Housman, A.E. "When I was One-and-Twenty."