NMLP P-041280 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
William Harvey · Sumptibus Guilielmi Fitzeri (William Fitzer), Frankfurt · 1628
Frankfurt 1628 is the true first: an English author's landmark book first printed abroad, Fitzer being chosen through Harvey's connection to Robert Fludd, whose works Fitzer published. The second edition (Venice, 1635, issued with Emilio Parigiano's refutation) is fragmentary and lacks the plates, so it is not a substitute. The first edition in English is a separate collected book: The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood (London: printed by Francis Leach for Richard Lowndes, 1653), with Zachariah Wood's preface — 1653 London is the English-language first and is collected alongside the 1628 Latin.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041280 for "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus" by William Harvey (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041280, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).