- Published: 5 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781448138470
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Circulation
William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea
- Published: 5 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781448138470
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
[An] acute, imaginative book
John Carey, Sunday Times
A book that combines scholarly science with narrative excitement to spectacular effect
Mark Lawson
A concise, skilful and eloquent book
Charles Nicholl, Guardian
A vivid biography of William Harvey, which reveals his complex character
Patricia Fara, BBC History Magazine
An engaging and lively account of an endlessly curious man
Independent
As soon as I started this book, I was gripped with curiosity
William Leith, Spectator
Excellent and often bloodthirsty... A highly readable account of a great Englishman
Tablet
In Circulation, Wright tells a good story, warts and all
Duncan Wu, Independent
It’s a pretty gruesome story – told very well here by Thomas Wright
William Leith, Evening Standard
The little man of 'perpetual movement' has found a fine advocate in Thomas Wright, whose highly readable Circulation combines recent scholarship with more than a touch of drama
Times Literary Supplement
Thomas Wright's book opens brilliantly and bloodily and continues in the same vein...a captivating intellectually gripping journey into our country's scientific past
Druin Burch, Mail on Sunday
Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally
Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
Thomas Wright's lucid biography...deftly puts Harvey into his cultural context
Hermione Eyre, Prospect