What the Blood Knew (Paperback)

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Edité par Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. In 1242, a physician in Cairo looked at the human heart and saw something no one had seen before.Ibn al-Nafis was thirty years old when he wrote the passage that would change medicine - and then wait 636 years to be recognized.Working in the great hospitals of Ayyubid Cairo, Ibn al-Nafis examined the cardiac septum and found it solid, impermeable, and utterly contrary to what Galen had claimed for thirteen centuries. Blood did not seep through invisible pores from the right side of the heart to the left. It traveled through the lungs - picking up air, being refined - and returned to the heart through the pulmonary vein. In two hundred words buried in a medical commentary, he described what William Harvey would be credited with discovering 382 years later.Then the world moved on. His text was copied, distributed, and read - and the most important passage in it was not recognized as revolutionary for six centuries.What the Blood Knew tells the full story of Ibn al-Nafis: his formation in Damascus's great schools, his career in Cairo's hospital wards, the precise observation that overturned Galenic certainty, and the long silence that followed. It is a book about what it means to know something true before the world is ready to hear it - and about the quiet, unshakeable courage of writing it down anyway.Drawing on Ibn al-Nafis's own medical texts and the latest scholarship in the history of Islamic science, Narin Hikma offers a vivid, deeply researched account of one of history's most overlooked scientific breakthroughs - and the civilization that made it possible. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
What the Blood Knew (Paperback)
Auteur
Narin Hikma
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
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9798195564421

CitiRetail

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