Harvey
Harvey names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Harvey WILLIAM, an English physician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English physician; born in Folkestone, Kent, 1, 1578. He took his degree arts at Caius College, Cambridge, in 1597 and after five years' study at Padua, he obtained his diploma as doctor medicine in 1602. receiving his doctor's degree from his original university, Cambridge, he settled in London as a physician. In 1609 he was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1615 Lumleian Lecturer at the College of Physicians an office then held for life; and it is generally supposed that in his first course of supp lectures (in the spring of 1616) he expounded those original and complete views of the circulation of the blood with which his name is indelibly associated. It was not till the year 1628 that he gave his views to the world at large, in his celebrated treatise entitled, "Anatomical Study of the Movement of the Heart and the Blood." He was appointed successively physician to James I. and Charles I. Harvey's first step was to prove that the arteries contained not air but blood. He attended the king in his various expeditions, and was present with him at the battle of Edgehill (Oct. 23, 1642). On the surrender of Oxford to the Parliament July, 1646, he left the university and returned to London. In 1654 he was elected president of the College of Physicians, but he declined the office on account of his age and infirmities. In July, 1656, he resigned his Lumleian lectureship (held for more than 40 years); and in taking leave of the college presented to it his little patrimonial estate at Burmarsh, in Kent. He died at Hampstead, June 3, 1657.
Harvey GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, an American publisher and editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, an American publisher and editor, born in Peacham, Vt., 1864. He was successively connected with the reportorial staffs of the "Springfield Republican," the "Chicago News," and the New York "World." He was also the promoter and the president of a number of electrical railway corporations. At one time he was president of the publishing firm of Harper & Bros. In 1899 he became editor of the "North American Review." He was appointed ambassador to Great Britain in March, 1921. He was the author of "Women" (1908); and "The Power of Tolerance" (1911).
Harvey a city of Illinois
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Illinois, in Cook It is on the Illinois Central, the co. Grand Trunk, the Baltimore and Ohio, and other railroads, and on the Calumet river. The city is a residential suburb of Chicago. It is, however, an important industrial center. It has manufactures of mining machinery, gas stoves, automobiles, cement, railroad supplies, etc. It has a public library and other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,227; (1920) 9,216.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught George Harvey at his high-water mark: appointed ambassador to Britain in March 1921, he was recalled in 1923 after a career of gaffes and died in 1928, his "North American Review" celebrity now largely forgotten. The William Harvey entry still stands almost line for line, though one thing has moved since 1921: in 1924 the Egyptian physician Muhyi al-Din al-Tatawi found in Berlin a manuscript of Ibn al-Nafis, who had described the pulmonary transit of blood in the 13th century, complicating the story of who first overturned Galen. Harvey, Illinois, described as an "important industrial center" of 9,216 people making mining machinery and gas stoves, grew past 34,000 by 1970 and then collapsed with its factories; it now has roughly 20,000 residents, a majority-Black population, and a long record of municipal financial distress.
Written for this edition, 2026.