A new evidence on pulmonary circulation discovery: A text of Ibn Luqa (860–912 AD)

Kamran Mahlooji, Mahsima Abdoli, Halil Tekiner, Arman Zargaran

Journal: European Heart Journal
Year: 2021

The history of pulmonary circulation discovery has been long-time debated. For centuries, William Harvey (1578–1657) was reported as the first scholar who described pulmonary circulation mechanism in his book entitled De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart; 1628); while, before him, the credit of this great anatomical discovery was given to Michael Servetus (c.1511–1553). Servetus was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, and polymath hypothesizing pulmonary circulation in his book Christianismi Restitutio (Restoration of Christianity; 1553).2 After him, such a theory was further developed by the Italian anatomist Renaldus Columbus (1516–1559), and finally elaborated through a mechanistic approach by Harvey.