Psychology Today | 07.05.2026 00:54
William Harvey is remembered for accurately describing the circulatory system. If his name is mentioned in a medical school or in a college classroom, I doubt that anyone snickers at his beliefs that the blood carried the soul or that the lens of the eye, rather than the retina, was where light changed to nervous impulses. Nobody questions the calculations of Newtonian physics because Newton himself believed that the design of the temple of Solomon contained secrets about the dimensions of the earth. Nobody ridicules Darwin or avoids using his name because he had no conception of DNA.
