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  2. Cardiocentric hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    According to the cardiocentric hypothesis, the heart is the primary location of human emotions, cognition, and awareness. [1] This notion may be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Greece , where the heart was regarded not only as a physical organ but also as a repository of emotions and wisdom. [ 2 ]

  3. On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle begins by raising the question of the seat of life in the body ("while it is clear that [the soul's] essential reality cannot be corporeal, yet manifestly it must exist in some bodily part which must be one of those possessing control over the members") and arrives at the answer that the heart is the primary organ of soul, and the central organ of nutrition and sensation (with which ...

  4. William Harvey - Wikipedia

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    William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) [1] was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. [2] He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart (though earlier writers, such as Realdo ...

  5. Works of Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]

  6. On Sleep - Wikipedia

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    On Sleep (or On Sleep and Sleeplessness; Greek Περὶ ὕπνου καὶ ἐγρηγόρσεως; Latin: De somno et vigilia) is a text by Aristotle, one of the Parva Naturalia. Topics [ edit ]

  7. Galen - Wikipedia

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    His writings were influenced by earlier Greek and Roman thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Pyrrhonists. Galen was concerned to combine philosophical thought with medical practice, as in his brief work That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher he took aspects from each group and combined them with his original thought.

  8. On the Heavens - Wikipedia

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    Page one of Aristotle's On the Heavens, from an edition published in 1837. On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BCE, [1] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.

  9. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    4th century BC: Aristotle differentiates between near-sighted and far-sightedness. [39] Graeco-Roman physician Galen would later use the term "myopia" for near-sightedness. Pāṇini 's Aṣṭādhyāyī , an early Indian grammatical treatise that constructs a formal system for the purpose of describing Sanskrit grammar.