Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I

1850

Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.
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Scholarship and Science, 1750–1880

 The scholarly and scientific ethos permeated Jewish intellectual life in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and resulted in contributions obscure and renowned. The foundations of the astonishing breakthroughs of Jews in the sciences in the twentieth century were laid in this period.

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