William Harvey 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 heart, though earlier writers, such as Realdo Colombo, Michael Servetus, and Jacques Dubois, had provided precursors of the theory. In 1973, the William Harvey Hospital was constructed in the town of Ashford, a few miles from his birthplace of Folkestone. William's father, Thomas Harvey, was a jurat of Folkestone
When I Was King and Other Verses When I Was King and Other Verses When I Was King and Other Verses (1905) is a collection of poetry by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. The original edition consisted of 76 poems, representing work that Lawson had published in the years since his previous major collection, "Verses, Popular and Humorous" was published in 1900. The book's publisher, Angus and Robertson, also released the collection in two volumes later the same year, titled "The Elder Son" and "When I Was King". These volumes were released under the publisher's Commonwealth Series of poetry collections and contain roughly half the original