The heart, viewed by Aristotle as a command centre, a central sensorium, perceives environmental changes surrounding the body, and accordingly moves to cause internal motions within the body to respond to those changes. Aristotle views the heart as the sense organ common to all peripheral sense organs and the master sense organ to which all sense organs lead.
Read More“To the ancient Egyptians, the heart was the center of thought, emotion, and all other nervous functions – an organ of such importance thatn after death. it was thought necessary to salvation after death.”
Read MoreHarvey and Descartes viewed the world from two different paradigms, and the discovery of blood circulation and the role of the heart would fit differently in each paradigm.
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