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KEILL, James (1673 – 1719)

1673 – 1719

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1708 CE

#11673

An account of animal secretion, the quantity of blood in the humane body, and muscular motion.

Keill applied measurement and mathematics in his researches, claiming the "first calculations of the absolute velocity at which blood travels through the aorta and smaller vessels; he also recognized that the blood's …